A Childhood: The Biography of a Place
 

A Childhood: The Biography of a Place

by Harry Crews

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... (more)

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Member Reviews

  • AlfredS
    • Rated 5 stars

    This book is a must read for fans of Southern Literature. If you were to only read one book by Harry Crews, this is the one.

    AlfredS wrote this review Sunday, December 9 2007. ( reply | permalink )
  • LibraryWoman
    • Rated 5 stars

    One of the weirdest and most unconventionally beautiful books I've read. Crews' fictionalized memoir is fascinating.

    LibraryWoman wrote this review Tuesday, June 19 2007. ( reply | permalink )
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