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      The Memory of Old Jack

      by Wendell Berry
      Published
      Sep 1975
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      General Fiction General Fiction
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      223
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      Port William

      About This Book

      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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      First Edition Sep 1975 Harcourt ISBN 0156586703
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