A childhood: the biography of a place
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2022
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English
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"This memoir by Harry Crews captures the first six years of his life among impoverished tenant farmer families in rural southern Georgia. Crews shares details of farm life, his father's death, his friendship with the son of a Black hired hand; his bout with polio; his mother and stepfather's failing marriage; his near-fatal scalding at a hog-killing; and a five-month sojourn in Jacksonville, Florida. As an introduction to Crews's fiction, this portrait of the people, locales, circumstances, and Bacon County lore that shaped him, offers a foundation of the writer's outlook, the refuge he found in his storytelling imagination, and his affection for the outsider, the outcast, and those considered freakish"--
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9780143135333
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9780525506768
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Wolff, Tobias, 1945-
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Crews, Harry, 1935-2012
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Crews, Harry
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ADULT
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Glen Burnie Library - Nonfiction
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Glen Burnie Library - Nonfiction
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"This memoir by Harry Crews captures the first six years of his life among impoverished tenant farmer families in rural southern Georgia. Crews shares details of farm life, his father's death, his friendship with the son of a Black hired hand; his bout with polio; his mother and stepfather's failing marriage; his near-fatal scalding at a hog-killing; and a five-month sojourn in Jacksonville, Florida. As an introduction to Crews's fiction, this portrait of the people, locales, circumstances, and Bacon County lore that shaped him, offers a foundation of the writer's outlook, the refuge he found in his storytelling imagination, and his affection for the outsider, the outcast, and those considered freakish"--
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921 CREWS
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Anne Arundel County Public Library
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Severna Park Library
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9780143135333
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2022
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Penguin Books
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Penguin Books
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Autobiographies
Autobiography
Bacon County (Ga.) -- Biography
Crews, Harry, -- 1935-2012 -- Childhood and youth
Novelists, American -- 20th century -- Biography
Autobiography
Bacon County (Ga.) -- Biography
Crews, Harry, -- 1935-2012 -- Childhood and youth
Novelists, American -- 20th century -- Biography
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A childhood : the biography of a place
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A Childhood The Biography of a Place
A childhood : the biography of a place / Harry Crews ; foreword by Tobias Wolff
A childhood : the biography of a place / Harry Crews ; foreword by Tobias Wolff
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A childhood
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the biography of a place
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Biography & Autobiography
Childhood and youth
Crews, Harry
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Novelists, American
Sociology
Childhood and youth
Crews, Harry
History
Nonfiction
Novelists, American
Sociology
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