Blood, Bone, and Marrow : A Biography of Harry Crews.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Geltner, Ted.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Crews, Harry, 1935-2012.

Crews, Harry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (453 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

2020.

Athens : University of Georgia Press, 2016.

Summary:

In 2010, Ted Geltner drove to Gainesville, Florida, to pay a visit to Harry Crews and ask the legendary author if he would be willing to be the subject of a literary biography. His health rapidly deteriorating, Crews told Geltner he was on board and would even sit for interviews and tell his stories one last time. "Ask me anything you want, bud," Crews said. "But you'd better do it quick." The result is Blood, Bone, and Marrow, the first full-length biography of one of the most unlikely figures in twentieth-century American literature, a writer who emerged from a dirt-poor South Georgia tenant farm and went on to create a singularly unique voice of fiction. With books such as Scar Lover, Body, and Naked in Garden Hills, Crews opened a new window into southern life, focusing his lenson the poor and disenfranchised, the people who skinned the hogs and tended the fields, the "grits," as Crews affectionately called his characters and himself. He lived by a code of his own design, flouting authority and baring his soul, and the stories of his whiskey-and-blood-soaked lifestyle created a myth to match any of his fictional creations. His outlaw life, his distinctive voice and the context in which he lived combine to form the elements of a singularly compelling narrative about an underappreciated literary treasure.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title

Copyright

Contents

Foreword

Part One. There Is No Road Up, No Path

Chapter One. Bacon County

Chapter Two. Dreams and Nightmares

Chapter Three. Jacksonville

Chapter Four. The Marines

Chapter Five. King of the Road

Chapter Six. Mr. Lytle

Chapter Seven. Married Life

Chapter Eight. A Self-Education

Chapter Nine. Hope Fades

Chapter Ten. Broward Blues

Chapter Eleven. Gold from a Coal Mine

Part Two. Top of the Mountain

Chapter Twelve. Arrival

Chapter Thirteen. Second Time Around

Chapter Fourteen. A New Form of Combat

Chapter Fifteen. Berkeley of the South

Chapter Sixteen. The Hawk Flies

Chapter Seventeen. Melrose

Chapter Eighteen. Free Agent

Chapter Nineteen. No Man's Land

Chapter Twenty. Playboy Journalist

Chapter Twenty-One. Grit Journalism

Chapter Twenty-Two. End of the Feast

Chapter Twenty-Three. A Sense of Place

Part Three. Descent

Chapter Twenty-Four. Hard Work

Chapter Twenty-Five. Muscle Memory

Chapter Twenty-Six. Violence Finds Us

Chapter Twenty-Seven. The Racist Gene

Chapter Twenty-Eight. A Messy Business

Chapter Twenty-Nine. The Worm Farm

Part Four. We Are All of Us Passing Through

Chapter Thirty. An Acquired Taste

Chapter Thirty-One. Stage Craft

Chapter Thirty-Two. Out of the Bottle

Chapter Thirty-Three. Scarred Over

Chapter Thirty-Four. Assault from Within

Chapter Thirty-Five. Curtain Call

Chapter Thirty-Six. Last Stop

Epilogue

Author's Note

Notes

References

Index.

Notes:

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ISBN:

0-8203-4924-0

OCLC:

1024265900