Jayber Crow Its sprawling

Its sprawling

finds to his horror that a Midwest car dealer is taking his fiction as truth

The subtle power of Cisnero's storytelling is evident

These days

Naked Lunch has become one of the most important novels of the twentieth century

Jayber Crow Its sprawling"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