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A Childhood: The Biography of a Place

By Harry Crews

Book information

Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Year
2022
ISBN
9780525506768, 2021029407, 2021029408, 9780143135333
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
991 kB (1015118 bytes)
Pages
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Time added
2022-10-03 07:20:13
BIO026000Biography & AutobiographyHIS036060HistoryNonfictionSOC050000Sociology

Description

“One of the Finest Memoirs Ever Written” –The New Yorker   The highly acclaimed memoir of one of the most original American storytellers of the rural South A Penguin Classic Harry Crews grew up as the son of a sharecropper in Georgia at a time when “the rest of the country was just beginning to feel the real hurt of the Great Depression but it had been living in Bacon County for years.” Yet what he conveys in this moving, brutal autobiography of his first six years of life is an elegiac sense of community and roots from a rural South that had rarely been represented in this way. Interweaving his own memories including his bout with polio and a fascination with the Sears, Roebuck catalog, with the tales of relatives and friends, he re-creates a childhood of tenderness and violence, comedy and tragedy.

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