The Memory Of Old Jack

Wendell Berry

The Memory Of Old Jack
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Counterpoint
Country
United States
Published
8 October 1999
Pages
176
ISBN
9781582430430

The Memory Of Old Jack

Wendell Berry

Old Jack, born just after the American Civil War and dying in contemporary times, spends one beautiful September day in Port William, his home since birth, remembering.

The story tells of the most searing moments of Old Jack’s life, particularly his debt to his sister Nancy and her husband Ben Feltner, Old Jack’s model of what an honorable manhood and strength might be.

Few novelists treat both their characters and their readers with the kind of respect that Wendell Berry displays in this deeply moving account … The Memory of Old Jack is a slab of rich Americana.

-The New York Times Book Review

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