Harry Crews. University of Georgia Press, - Biography Autobiography - pages. 5 Reviews. A Childhood is the unforgettable memoir of Harry Crews' earliest years, a sharply remembered /5(5). · In , Crews’s memoir of his youth, A Childhood: The Biography of a Place, was published to enduring acclaim. Two compilations of his nonfiction works, Blood and Grits and Florida Frenzy, were issued in and , bltadwin.ru: Penguin Publishing Group. In his memoir, A Childhood: The Biography of a Place (), American author Harry Crews chronicles the first six years of his life growing up in rural Georgia during the Great Depression. Kirkus Reviews called A Childhood "a mottled, textured reminiscence of seasonal rituals, periodic tragedy, and indelible coincidence.".
A Childhood: The Biography of a Place (Hardcover) Published October 1st by University of Georgia Press. Hardcover, pages. Author (s): Harry Crews (Illustrations), Michael McCurdy (Illustrator) ISBN: (ISBN ) Edition language. As he chronicled in his autobiography A Childhood: The Biography of a Place, Crews was born in on a tiny farm in rural Georgia. His father was an unsuccessful farmer who died when Harry was. W hen Harry Crews died in , Elaine Woo in the Los Angeles Times wrote, [t]he word 'original' only begins to describe Crews, whose 17 novels place him squarely in the Southern gothic tradition, also known as Grit Lit. He emerged from a grisly childhood in Georgia with a darkly comic vision that made him literary kin to William Faulkner, Flannery O'Connor and Hunter S. Thompson.
From the evangelist’s oven mouth spewed images of a place with pitchforks, and devils, and lakes of fire that burned forever. God had fixed a place like that because he loved us so much.” —Harry Crews, A Childhood: The Biography of a Place, A Childhood is the unforgettable memoir of Harry Crews' earliest years, a sharply remembered portrait of the people, locales, and circumstances that shaped him―and destined him to be a storyteller. Crews was born in the middle of the Great Depression, in a one-room sharecropper's cabin at the end of a dirt road in rural South Georgia. Childhood: The Biography of a Place, by Harry Crews. University of Georgia Press, pp. with drawings by Michael McCurdy. hardcover. " Nothing is allowed to die in a society of storytelling people." In the opening pages, author Harry Crews offers his readers one reason why he started writing this book -- it was because.
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