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Original Title:	Jayber Crow
ISBN:	1582431604 (ISBN13: 9781582431604)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Port William
Setting:	United States of America

Jayber Crow (Port William) Paperback | Pages: 363 pages

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Title	:	Jayber Crow (Port William)
Author	:	Wendell Berry
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 363 pages
Published	:	August 30th 2001 by Counterpoint LLC (first published September 5th 2000)
Categories	:	Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Novels. Literature. Classics

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"This is a book about Heaven," says Jayber Crow, "but I must say too that . . . I have wondered sometimes if it would not finally turn out to be a book about Hell." It is 1932 and he has returned to his native Port William to become the town's barber. Orphaned at age ten, Jayber Crow's acquaintance with loneliness and want have made him a patient observer of the human animal, in both its goodness and frailty. He began his search as a "pre-ministerial student" at Pigeonville College. There, freedom met with new burdens and a young man needed more than a mirror to find himself. But the beginning of that finding was a short conversation with "Old Grit," his profound professor of New Testament Greek. "You have been given questions to which you cannot be given answers. You will have to live them out--perhaps a little at a time." "And how long is that going to take?" "I don't know. As long as you live, perhaps." "That could be a long time." "I will tell you a further mystery," he said. "It may take longer." Wendell Berry's clear-sighted depiction of humanity's gifts--love and loss, joy and despair--is seen though his intimate knowledge of the Port William Membership.

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When I first read "The Life Story of Jayber Crow, Barber, of the Port William Membership, as Written by Himself," I was thankful that I was not Jayber. In between readings, I proclaimed that I would never become Jayber, but I secretly wondered if I already was. After my second reading, I soothed myself by understanding that perhaps being Jayber wasn't so bad. He knew his place on the true side of The River in Port William, Kentucky, but it was more elevated than even he perceived. His was a life

I totally fell in love with Jayber, Wendell Berry and the place. Berry makes it feel so easy. Touches you from the very beginning and never lets up, but in a very soothing way. This is going on my favorites, it's that good.

Jayber Crow is an orphan twice over who ends up in an orphanage at age ten. Though later he finds the means to get back to his hometown Port William and become the local barber (whose shop is a social hub), he ultimately chooses a more solitary peaceful life living in a borrowed cabin by the river. A fine story of small community life, the beauty of nature, unrequited love, and a life well lived. The best acclaim for one book is wanting to continue reading the author's work. Luckily there are

It was such a pleasure to read Wendell Berry's lyrical prose about a quiet, observant man living through the 20th Century. Jayber Crow was orphaned twice as a young boy, first when his parents died and then when his adoptive aunt and uncle passed away. He was sent to an orphanage, spent time at a divinity school until he questioned his faith, and worked some small jobs. But the river that flowed near his rural childhood home called to him, and he made his way back to Port William, Kentucky.

For me, reading this book was all about the time and setting, and not so much a connection with any of the characters. As soon as I started to develop a connection with a character, the story would meander once more. I didnt necessarily mind that. There are many books that I have loved that are not character and story driven. I also enjoyed going back to a simpler time in rural Americana. The writing was beautiful, but it was probably towards the last third of the book that I felt that much of

This may be one of my all-time favorite books. It reminds me of another beautiful book that I loved, Stoner, but unlike Stoner (which left me depressed and sad), Jayber Crow lifted me up. A wonderful line that to me sums up the book says, "There is a light that includes the darkness." And although Jayber Crow contains many sad things, there is a light that shines through it and keeps it from overcoming the light (to paraphrase the gospel John).Jayber Crow lives, by many standards, a difficult

Jayber Crow is an octogenarian barber who sits under the poplars that hedge in his cabin and stares at the reflections on the river water that is always running somewhere, with time floating in swirls of memories of a life fully lived and now suddenly gone, its light extinguished from within. And yet, this very same river erodes the hills and pastures that have crowned Jaybers home since the beginning of times as if to remind him that everything changes so that the essential remains the same.I