A Childhood

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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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1935, Bacon County, Georgia. The bite of the Great Depression was beginning to be felt in the rest of America, but its teeth had been in Bacon County for years. Here one of America's most original storytellers, Harry Crews, was born in a sharecropper's cabin at the end of a dirt road. A Childhood is his memoir of that time – his first years of life – and that place: the poor soil and the sickness, the blood feuds and the faith healers, the ghosts and the shopping catalogues.

A profound vision of the rural South that resounds with the violence of poverty and the tenderness of kinship, A Childhood is a true American classic.

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Weight 0.154 kg
Dimensions 19.8 × 12.9 × 1.3 cm
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Publisher

Imprint

Cover

Paperback
Pages

192
Language

English
Edition
Dewey

813.54 (edition:23)
Readership

General – Trade / Code: K

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