Growing Up in the South: An Anthology of Modern... by Suzanne W. Jones

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Twenty-four unmistakably Southern 20th-century voices-of varying race, class, and gender-demonstrate that region's extraordinary range of storytellers in this eloquent coming-of-age collection.

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Born in 1935, Harry Crews, the son of a poor tenant farmer, never lived in one place very long so he did not have the anchor of a family "home place", which he, like many other southerners defines as "that single house where you were born, where you lived out your childhood, where you grew into young manhood."

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Suzanne W. Jones (Author)

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Dewey: 813.0108975

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Books › Literature & Fiction › Short Stories › Anthologies
Books › Literature & Fiction › Genre Fiction › Anthologies
Books › Literature & Fiction › Classics
Books › Literature & Fiction › Contemporary
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An Anthology of Modern Southern Literature

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