Wendell Berry

Jayber Crow

A barber in rural Kentucky achieves grace through quiet service and love

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Wendell Berry
Wendell Berry

American poet, novelist, and essayist who has farmed the same Kentucky land for sixty years while producing a body of writing that makes the strongest available case for local community, careful farming, and the rejection of industrial agriculture. The Unsettling of America is his most influential prose work. He is America's foremost agrarian thinker.

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