{"product_id":"jayber-crow","title":"Jayber Crow","description":"\"This is a book about Heaven,\" says Jayber Crow, \"but I must say too that . . . I have wondered sometimes if it would not finally turn out to be a book about Hell.\" It is 1932 and he has returned to his native Port William to become the town's barber. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOrphaned at age ten, Jayber Crow's acquaintance with loneliness and want have made him a patient observer of the human animal, in both its goodness and frailty. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHe began his search as a \"pre-ministerial student\" at Pigeonville College. There, freedom met with new burdens and a young man needed more than a mirror to find himself. But the beginning of that finding was a short conversation with \"Old Grit,\" his profound professor of New Testament Greek. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"You have been given questions to which you cannot be \u003ci\u003egiven\u003c\/i\u003e answers. You will have to live them out--perhaps a little at a time.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"And how long is that going to take?\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"I don't know. As long as you live, perhaps.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"That could be a long time.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"I will tell you a further mystery,\" he said. \"It may take longer.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWendell Berry's clear-sighted depiction of humanity's gifts--love and loss, joy and despair--is seen though his intimate knowledge of the Port William Membership.\u003cdiv style=\"display:none\"\u003eISBN-10: 1582431604\u003cbr\u003eISBN-13: 9781582431604\u003cbr\u003eAuthor: Berry, Wendell, N\/A, N\/A\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Counterpoint LLC\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Counterpoint LLC","offers":[{"title":"Paperback (Aug 2001)","offer_id":45660120088773,"sku":"9781582431604","price":17.05,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0708\/6414\/2533\/files\/9781582431604.jpg?v=1768918431","url":"https:\/\/www.inveni.store\/products\/jayber-crow","provider":"Inveni","version":"1.0","type":"link"}