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Book Description
A burnished day in September 1952 provides the framework for a narrative that movingly distills the lifetime of an uncommonly admirable if very human being. A new corrected edition.
"The Memory of Old Jack is a slab of rich Americana, eloquent testimony that `it's not a tragedy when a man dies at the end of his life.'" -The New York Times Book Review
"The account of Jack's courtship of his wife is a beautiful piece of writing...and worthy of a place among the best pieces of prose written by American writers of this century."-Library Journal
About the Author
Wendell Berry lives and works with his wife, Tanya Berry, on their farm in Port Royal, Kentucky. An essayist, novelist, and poet, he is the author of more than thirty books. Berry has received numerous awards, including the T. S. Eliot Award, the John Hay Award, the Lyndhurst Prize, and the Aiken-Taylor Award for Poetry from The Sewanee Review.
The Memory of Old Jack,Wendell Berry,Counterpoint Press,1582430438,Berry, Wendell - Prose & Criticism,Fiction,Fiction - General,General,Kentucky,Literary,Older men,Pastoral fiction,Port William (Ky. : Imaginary,Port William (Ky. : Imaginary place),Modern fiction
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