With caustic and fabulist writing, he exhumed the ghosts of Americas original sin.Crews captured the raw essence of humanity in both fiction and nonfiction. 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.

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the memoir is flawless, one of the finest ever written by an American. Like its author, its a resilient American original. Its agile, honest and built as if to last. Review Quotes Reading Crews, I found the courage to tell the stories Id been amassing my whole life. 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. 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. Book Synopsis 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. Published with a foreword by Tobias Wolff in Penguin Books, 2022-Title page verso. About the Book First published in the United States of America by Harper and Row Publishers, 1978.

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