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- Book Title
- Childhood : the Biography of a Place
- Publication Name
- A Childhood
- Title
- A Childhood
- Subtitle
- The Biography of a Place
- Contributor
- Tobias Wolff (Foreword by)
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- ISBN-10
- 0143135333
- EAN
- 9780143135333
- ISBN
- 9780143135333
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography, History, Social Science
- Topic
- United States / 20th Century, Social Classes & Economic Disparity, Personal Memoirs
- Release Year
- 2022
- Release Date
- 24/11/2022
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- GB
- Item Height
- 0.6in
- Item Length
- 7.7in
- Item Width
- 5.1in
- Item Weight
- 5.4 Oz
- Publication Year
- 2022
- Number of Pages
- 192 Pages
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"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.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0143135333
ISBN-13
9780143135333
eBay Product ID (ePID)
23050038023
Product Key Features
Book Title
Childhood : the Biography of a Place
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
United States / 20th Century, Social Classes & Economic Disparity, Personal Memoirs
Publication Year
2022
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, History, Social Science
Number of Pages
192 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
7.7in
Item Height
0.6in
Item Width
5.1in
Item Weight
5.4 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Ps3553.R46z46 2022
Reviews
"Reading Crews, I found the courage to tell the stories I'd been amassing my whole life." --Mary Karr "This memoir is for everyone. It's agile, honest and built as if to last. Like its author, it's a resilient American original." --Dwight Garner, The New York Times "...the memoir is flawless, one of the finest ever written by an American....[it] answers some specific questions, namely where its author came from and how he became a writer, but it asks broader ones, too: why anyone becomes anything, how we square our pasts with our futures, and why certain things--a book, its author--are rescued from oblivion." --Casey Cep, The New Yorker "Critics and awards anoint some authors as legends. Others depend on word-of-mouth and prose that stands the test of time....There is nothing folksy, never mind pastoral or genteel, about Crews. With caustic and fabulist writing, he exhumed the ghosts of America's original sin.....Crews captured the raw essence of humanity in both fiction and nonfiction. Side by side, these reissues form the complete picture of an imperfect man who charged hard into extremes to escape his cultural inheritance." --Lauren Leblanc, Los Angeles Times "Of all of Crews' magnificent output, it is A Childhood: The Biography of a Place , first published in 1978 that is the most memorable and is written in a language that will sear the mind and memory.... There are startlingly wild scenes written with hair raising power....This review cannot begin to capture the power of the writing of Harry Crews nor the essence of this portrait of the life of a sharecropping family in the Great Depression. All that can be said is, read it. The power of the written word will never be made more clear." -- New York Journal of Books, "Reading Crews, I found the courage to tell the stories I'd been amassing my whole life." --Mary Karr "This memoir is for everyone. It's agile, honest and built as if to last. Like its author, it's a resilient American original." --Dwight Garner, The New York Times "Critics and awards anoint some authors as legends. Others depend on word-of-mouth and prose that stands the test of time....There is nothing folksy, never mind pastoral or genteel, about Crews. With caustic and fabulist writing, he exhumed the ghosts of America's original sin.....Crews captured the raw essence of humanity in both fiction and nonfiction. Side by side, these reissues form the complete picture of an imperfect man who charged hard into extremes to escape his cultural inheritance." --Lauren Leblanc, Los Angeles Times, "Reading Crews, I found the courage to tell the stories I'd been amassing my whole life." --Mary Karr "This memoir is for everyone. It's agile, honest and built as if to last. Like its author, it's a resilient American original." --Dwight Garner, The New York Times "Critics and awards anoint some authors as legends. Others depend on word-of-mouth and prose that stands the test of time....There is nothing folksy, never mind pastoral or genteel, about Crews. With caustic and fabulist writing, he exhumed the ghosts of America's original sin.....Crews captured the raw essence of humanity in both fiction and nonfiction. Side by side, these reissues form the complete picture of an imperfect man who charged hard into extremes to escape his cultural inheritance." --Lauren Leblanc, Los Angeles Times "Of all of Crews' magnificent output, it is A Childhood: The Biography of a Place , first published in 1978 that is the most memorable and is written in a language that will sear the mind and memory.... There are startlingly wild scenes written with hair raising power....This review cannot begin to capture the power of the writing of Harry Crews nor the essence of this portrait of the life of a sharecropping family in the Great Depression. All that can be said is, read it. The power of the written word will never be made more clear." -- New York Journal of Books, "Reading Crews, I found the courage to tell the stories I'd been amassing my whole life." --Mary Karr "This memoir is for everyone. It's agile, honest and built as if to last. Like its author, it's a resilient American original." --Dwight Garner, The New York Times
Lccn
2021-029407
Dewey Decimal
813/.54 B
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
20
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