Jayber Crow ""UNLESS someone like you

""UNLESS someone like you

Authors with Tokarczuk's vending machine of phrasing

The subtle power of Cisnero's storytelling is evident

It is there in the Benedictine abbey's shadow that a charismatic and cryptic man calling himself Pietro Houdini

Jayber Crow ""UNLESS someone like you"This is a book about Heaven," says Jayber Crow, "but I must say too that . . . I have wondered sometimes if it would not finally turn out to be a book about Hell." It is 1932 and he has returned to his native Port William to become the town's barber. Orphaned at age ten, Jayber Crow's acquaintance with loneliness and want have made him a patient observer of the human animal, in both its goodness and frailty. He began his search as a "pre ministerial