The Memory of Old Jack Summary
Wendell Berry

The Memory of Old Jack Summary

Jack spends a day in Port William, his home since birth, reflecting on his life, from the time he was a young boy born in the wake of the Civil War through an unhappy marriage to his final days as an old man who has been left behind by a society that has reinvented its values. Jack's first memories, which he recalls at the beginning of a new day, are of...

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