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Harry Crews

The Gospel Singer

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When a local man returns to Enigma, Georgia as a successful traveling evangelist, the townspeople, who idolize him, begin to attribute him with healing powers he knows he doesn't have. The celebrated first novel of Harry Crews, in its Penguin Classics debut.A Penguin ClassicIn Crews's first novel published in 1968, a gifted, idolized singer returns to his poor hometown and a life and family he is so far removed from he now holds them in contempt. The Gospel Singer reveals the absurdity of blind religious faith and idol worship, and the hypocrisy that results with the offering of money or sex. Crews grapples with race, gender, religion, and pl… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Wilson, Kevin (Vorb.)
  • ISBN: 978-0-14-313509-8
  • EAN: 9780143135098
  • Produktnummer: 36914451
  • Verlag: Penguin Books
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
  • Seitenangabe: 224 S.
  • Masse: H19.8 cm x B12.9 cm x D2.0 cm 350 g
  • Gewicht: 350

Über den Autor


Harry Crews (Author) Harry Crews (1935-2012) was born during the Great Depression in rural Georgia, USA. He is the author of seventeen novels and a memoir, often revolving around poor and disenfranchised characters from the Deep South. Crews taught creative writing at the University of Florida for nearly thirty years, mentoring and inspiring a generation of writers and gaining the reputation of a literary outsider and outlaw with a singular voice in American fiction. He is today considered a pillar of the Southern Gothic tradition.

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