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Book Review of Jayber Crow

Jayber Crow
Jayber Crow
Author: Wendell Berry
Genre: Literature & Fiction
Book Type: Paperback
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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.