A childhood, the biography of a place
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McCurdy, Michael, illustrator.
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Adult Nonfiction - South Wing Main Floor
921 Crews
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Physical Desc
182 pages : illustrations
Language
English

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Previously published: New York : Harper & Row, c1978.
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A Childhood is the unforgettable memoir of Harry Crews' 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 comical, A Childhood not only recalls the transforming events of Crews's youth but conveys his growing sense of self in a world "in which survival depended on raw courage, a courage born out of desperation and sustained by a lack of alternatives."

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Crews, H., & McCurdy, M. (1995). A childhood, the biography of a place . University of Georgia Press.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Crews, Harry, 1935-2012 and Michael, McCurdy. 1995. A Childhood, the Biography of a Place. University of Georgia Press.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Crews, Harry, 1935-2012 and Michael, McCurdy. A Childhood, the Biography of a Place University of Georgia Press, 1995.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Crews, Harry, and Michael McCurdy. A Childhood, the Biography of a Place University of Georgia Press, 1995.

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