A childhood by harry crews

UPDATE: December 21, 2022
Here is a link to a wonderful retrospective look at Crews' book by Dwight Garner in his "American Beauties" column in the New York Times:



I especially agree with his conclusion:

His novels, which are mostly out of print, aren’t for everyone, despite my abiding fondness for several of them.

This memoir is for everyone.

It’s agile, honest and built as if to last. Like its author, it’s a resilient American original.

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When Harry Crews died in 2012, Elaine Woo in the Los Angeles Times wrote, “[t]he word ‘original’ only begins to describe Crews, whose 17 novels place him squarely in the Southern gothic tradition, also known as Grit Lit.

He emerged from a grisly childhood in Georgia with a darkly comic vision that made him literary kin to William Faulkner, Flannery O’Connor and Hunter S. Thompson, although he never achieved their broad recognition.”

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