Memory of Old Jack, Wendell Berry
Memory of Old Jack, Wendell Berry
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Memory of Old Jack

Author: Wendell Berry

Narrator: Wendell Berry

Unabridged: 7 hr 47 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/01/2007

Synopsis

In a rural Kentucky river town, “Old Jack” Beechum, a retired farmer, sees his life again through the shades of one burnished day in September 1952. Bringing the earthiness of America’s past to mind, The Memory of Old Jack conveys the truth and integrity of the land and the people who live it. Through the eyes of one man can be seen the values Americans strive to recapture as we arrive at the next century.

About Wendell Berry

Wendell Berry, an essayist, novelist, and poet, has been honored with the T. S. Eliot Prize, the Aiken Taylor Award in Modern American Poetry, the John Hay Award of the Orion Society, and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award, among others. In 2010, he was awarded the National Humanities Medal by President Barack Obama, and in 2016, he was the recipient of the Ivan Sandrof Life Achievement Award from the National Book Critics Circle. Berry lives with his wife, Tanya Berry, on their farm in Henry County, Kentucky.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Angela M on March 20, 2022

I wanted to read a book that would take me to a place of quiet and beauty and good people . Anyone who has read and loved Wendell Berry knows that the place is Port William, his fictional Kentucky town. For those readers nothing more needs to be said; you already know . For those who haven’t read Be......more

Goodreads review by Megan on August 31, 2008

Gorgeous, gorgeous, gorgeous. Reading this book is like dreaming coherently--it just unfolds in front of you like liquid, with images so clear and so simple that you're instantly standing in the bodies of the characters--treading the dirt they walk on, breathing through their mouths... It is a patie......more

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