A Childhood: The Biography of a Place
A Childhood is the unforgettable memoir of Harry Crews's earliest years, a sharply remembered portrait of the people, locales, and circumstances that shaped him - and destined him to be a storyteller. Crews was born in the middle of the Great Depression, in a one-room sharecropper's cabin at the end of a dirt road in rural south Georgia. If Bacon County was a place of grinding poverty, poor soil, and blood feuds, it was also a deeply mystical place, where snakes talked, birds could possess a small boy by spitting in his mouth, and faith healers and conjure women kept ghosts and devils at bay. At once shocking and elegiac, heartrending and com…
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Weitere Autoren: McCurdy, Michael (Illustr.)
- ISBN: 978-0-8203-1759-5
- EAN: 9780820317595
- Produktnummer: 31831179
- Verlag: Univ Of Georgia Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1995
- Seitenangabe: 192 S.
- Masse: H23.6 cm x B16.2 cm x D1.9 cm 490 g
- Gewicht: 490
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