A childhood, the biography of a place
by Harry Crews
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A Childhood is the unforgettable memoir of Harry Crews's 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.
If Bacon County was a place of grinding poverty, poor soil, and blood feuds, it was also a deeply mystical place, where snakes talked, birds could possess a small boy by spitting in his mouth, and faith healers and conjure women kept ghosts and devils at bay.
At once shocking and elegiac, heartrending and comical, A Childhood not only recalls the transforming events of Crews's youth but conveys his growing sense of self in a world "in which survival depended on raw courage, a courage born out of desperation and sustained by a lack of alternatives."
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A childhood, the biography of a place
1995, University of Georgia Press
in English
0820317594 9780820317595
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A childhood, the biography of a place
1983, Quill
in English
- 1st Quill ed.
0688023983 9780688023980
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A childhood, the biography of a place
1978, Harper & Row
in English
- 1st ed.
0060109327 9780060109325
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