Jayber Crow
by Wendell Berry · first published 2000
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"Jayber Crow, born in Goforth, Kentucky, orphaned at age ten, began his search as a "pre-ministerial student" at Pigeonville College.". "Eventually, after the flood of 1937, Jayber becomes the barber of the small community of Port William, Kentucky. From behind that barber chair he lives out the questions that drove him from seminary and begins to accept the gifts of community that enclose his answers. The chair gives him a perfect perch from which to listen, to talk, and to see, as life spends itself all around. In this novel full of remarkable characters, he tells his story that becomes th
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Do yourself a favor and read Jayber Crow -- One of my all time favorite books and really the book that got me back into fiction after a long time away https://www.amazon.com/dp/1582431604?lv=shuf&channelId=500&p... > “If you could do it, I…
on “Wendell Berry has died” ↗Start with Jayber Crow. Then read Hannah Coulter. Then the whole Port Williams collective will open before you like a beatific field.
on “Wendell Berry has died” ↗Rootlessness and rootedness are themes that wind through most of Wendell Berry's works as well. His novels Hannah Coulter and Jayber Crow take a good look at what increasing rootlessness does to a community: increasing loneliness and isolation, but also eventual environmental destruction.
on “Simone Weil and the Need for Roots” ↗Recent reads: Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck East of Eden by John Steinbeck Jayber Crow by Wendell Berry The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro AntiFragile by Nassim Taleb (an almost annual re-read) When I read fiction, I go as far away from modern tech or sci-fi as possible, for balance.…
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