A childhood : the biography of a place / Harry Crews ; foreword by Tobias Wolff.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Crews, Harry, 1935-2012, author.

Contributor:

Wolff, Tobias, 1945- writer of foreword.

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Series:

Penguin classics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Crews, Harry, 1935-2012--Childhood and youth.

Crews, Harry.

Crews, Harry, 1935-2012.

Novelists, American--20th century--Biography.

Novelists, American.

Bacon County (Ga.)--Biography.

Bacon County (Ga.).

Georgia--Bacon County.

Genre:

Biographies.

Autobiographies.

Physical Description:

xiv, 176 pages ; 20 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Penguin Books 2022.

Summary:

"This memoir 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. As an introduction to Crews's fiction, this 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 affection for the outsider, the outcast, and those considered freakish"-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

"First published in the United States of America by Harper & Row Publishers, 1978. Published with a foreword by Tobias Wolff in Penguin Books, 2022"--Title page verso.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Crews, Harry, 1935-2012. Childhood, the biography of a place.

ISBN:

9780143135333

0143135333

OCLC:

1258040298