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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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A Childhood: The Biography of a Place

A Childhood: The Biography of a Place

Crews, Harry
Wolff, Tobias

Paperback

Biographies General20th Century United States HistoryPoverty & Social Work

Publisher Price: $16.00

ISBN10: 0143135333
ISBN13: 9780143135333
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Published: Mar 15 2022
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.30
Height: 0.63 Width: 5.04 Depth: 7.64
Language: English
One of the Finest Memoirs Ever Written -The New Yorker

A Childhood has been widely recognized as a masterpiece, a Dickensian document of survival and blight in Depression-era Georgia. -Harper's

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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