Jayber Crow. Wendell Berry

Читать онлайн книгу.

Jayber Crow - Wendell  Berry


Скачать книгу

      Table of Contents

       Title Page

       Acknowledgements

       NOTICE

       Part I

       Chapter 1 - The Barber in Port William

       Chapter 2 - Goforth

       Chapter 3 - Squires Landing

       Chapter 4 - The Good Shepherd

       Chapter 5 - The Call

       Chapter 6 - Pigeonville

       Chapter 7 - The Great World

       Chapter 8 - The Gathering Waters

       Chapter 9 - Barber Horsefield’s Successor

       Part II

       Chapter 10 - A Little Worter Dranking Party

       Chapter 11 - An Invisible Web

       Chapter 12 - The Gay Bird’s Heel

       Chapter 13 - A Period of Darkness

       Chapter 14 - For Better, for Wore

       Chapter 15 - The Beautiful Shore

       Chapter 16 - Rose of San Antone

       Chapter 17 - Forsaking All Others

       Chapter 18 - Untold

       Chapter 19 - A Gathering

       Chapter 20 - How It Held Together Partly

       Chapter 21 - Don’t Send a Boy to Do a Man’s Work

       Chapter 22 - Born

       Part III

       Chapter 23 - The Way of Love

       Chapter 24 - A Passage of Family Life

       Chapter 25 - A Period of Disintegration

       Chapter 26 - Finalities

       Chapter 27 - A New Life

       Chapter 28 - Branch

       Chapter 29 - On the Edge

       Chapter 30 - The Keith Place in the Way of the World

       Chapter 31 - The Nest Egg

       Chapter 32 - Seen Afar

       Copyright Page

      The Life Story of Jayber Crow, Barber, of the Port William Membership, as Written by Himself

       Other Books About the Port William Membership

      Andy Catlett Hannah Coulter The Memory of Old Jack Nathan Coulter A Place on Earth Remembering That Distant Land A World Lost

      Virginia Berry 1907-1997 Requiescat in pace

       ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

      A publisher’s job is to provide a writer with encouragement, correction, amusement, and (of course) publication. For all of these things, and for kindness and friendship, I thank the people at Counterpoint Press: Heather McLeod, Trish Hoard, John McLeod, and Jack Shoemaker.

      For typing my manuscript in various drafts, I thank Tanya and David Charlton and Tanya Berry. For reading the book and giving indispensable advice, I am indebted to the aforementioned two Tanyas, Ross Feld, Maurice Telleen, Don Wallis, and Donald Hall. Carole McCurdy copyedited the manuscript; I am grateful for her vigilance and her gift for marginal conversation.

       NOTICE

      Persons attempting to find a “text” in this book will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a “subtext” in it will be banished; persons attempting to explain, interpret, explicate, analyze, deconstruct, or otherwise “understand” it will be exiled to a desert island in the company only of other explainers.

      BY ORDER OF THE AUTHOR

      Magnanimous Despair alone Could show me so divine a thing ...

       Part I

       1

       The Barber in Port William

      I never put up a barber pole or a sign or even gave my shop a name. I didn’t have to. The building was already called “the barbershop.” That was its name because that had been its name for nobody knew how long. Port William had little written history Its history was its living memory of itself, which passed over the years like a moving beam of light. It had a beginning that


Скачать книгу