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Jayber Crow
Jayber Crow
Author: Wendell Berry
Returning once again to the Port William membership, Berry has written his best novel yet, a book certain to confirm his reputation as one of America's finest novelists. From the simple setting of his own barber shop, Jayber Crow, orphan, seminarian, and native of Port William, recalls his life and the life of his community as it spends itself ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781582431604
ISBN-10: 1582431604
Publication Date: 9/2001
Pages: 384
Rating:
  • Currently 4.2/5 Stars.
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4.2 stars, based on 29 ratings
Publisher: Counterpoint Press
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Audio CD
Members Wishing: 14
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quiltgranny avatar reviewed Jayber Crow on + 11 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 2
This is a book that I couldn't read slowly enough for fear that it would end.

Wendell Berry--novelist, poet, essayist--has written an unrequited love story and a love letter to the natural world. Jayber Crow revisits Berry's fictional Kentucky town of Port William and peers into the life of the town's barber, the book's namesake, Jayber.

Berry, a well-known environmentalist, has enough skill to render a page-turning story while advocating for the earth. He's one of our greatest living American writers. I highly recommend this book.
reviewed Jayber Crow on + 7 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 2
One of the best books I have ever read. Can't really tell you why except that when I closed the book, I missed the character of Jayber Crow. Not the author, the actual character. He's a small town barber from back in the day when the barbershop meant something to the vibrancy and story of a community. For those that have read the book, the last couple sentences alone make you wish there were 200 more pages.

A very under-appreciated novel by an author we all should be paying more attention too.
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Helpful Score: 1
Read this book for a book club I am in. Great discussion. Slow read at times but kept me interested.
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