A review by cah242
The Memory of Old Jack by Wendell Berry

5.0

Beautiful and heartbreaking and life-affirming. A portrait of an old farmer, told through his memories on the last day of his life. The writing is perfect, as simple and straightforward, and as deeply poetic, as Old Jack himself. Berry paints a picture of the goodness of man and of a man without giving a sermon. He lets Jack pine for older days of being connected to the land and to your "people" without coming across as blindly nostalgic.

It pains me how much like Glad Petit I am, how steeped in modernity. I hope I can somehow learn to apply the lessons of Old Jack in my life.