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Beschreibung
For the first time in Penguin Classics, Harry Crews's highly acclaimed, evocative literary memoir of his Depression-era childhood in the rural South.

A Penguin Classic

Considered by Mary Karr as the "most overlooked" of the best memoirs ever written, A Childhood by Harry Crews captures the first six years of his life among impoverished tenant farmer families in rural southern Georgia. Crews shares details of farm life, his father's death, his friendship with the son of a Black hired hand, his bout with polio, his mother and stepfather's failing marriage, his near-fatal scalding at a hog killing, and a five-month sojourn in Jacksonville, Florida.

The best introduction to Crews's acclaimed fiction, his memoir, A Childhood, in its portrait of the people, locales, circumstances, and Bacon County lore that shaped him, offers a foundation of the writer's outlook; the refuge he found in his storytelling imagination; and his reverence and affection for the outsider, the outcast, and those considered freakish.
For the first time in Penguin Classics, Harry Crews's highly acclaimed, evocative literary memoir of his Depression-era childhood in the rural South.

A Penguin Classic

Considered by Mary Karr as the "most overlooked" of the best memoirs ever written, A Childhood by Harry Crews captures the first six years of his life among impoverished tenant farmer families in rural southern Georgia. Crews shares details of farm life, his father's death, his friendship with the son of a Black hired hand, his bout with polio, his mother and stepfather's failing marriage, his near-fatal scalding at a hog killing, and a five-month sojourn in Jacksonville, Florida.

The best introduction to Crews's acclaimed fiction, his memoir, A Childhood, in its portrait of the people, locales, circumstances, and Bacon County lore that shaped him, offers a foundation of the writer's outlook; the refuge he found in his storytelling imagination; and his reverence and affection for the outsider, the outcast, and those considered freakish.
Über den Autor
Harry Crews; Foreword by Tobias Wolff
Zusammenfassung
OVERLOOKED MASTERPIECE: A Childhood (1978) and the works of Harry Crews are beloved by writers and artists including Mary Karr, Annie Dillard, Carl Hiassen, Kim Gordon, Maud Newton, Michael Connelly, and more.

INTRODUCTION BY TOBIAS WOLFF: Author of the award-winning modern classic memoir, This Boy's Life, Wolff has written a compelling original essay for Penguin Classics.

FIRST TIME IN PENGUIN CLASSICS: Debuting Harry Crews's memoir along with his first novel demonstrates their status as modern classics to find a whole new audience for the book.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Importe, Politikwissenschaft & Soziologie
Rubrik: Wissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780143135333
ISBN-10: 0143135333
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Crews, Harry
Hersteller: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 197 x 129 x 12 mm
Von/Mit: Harry Crews
Erscheinungsdatum: 15.03.2022
Gewicht: 0,234 kg
Artikel-ID: 124025134

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