A Childhood: The Biography of a Place
Harry Crews
Rave
Positive
Mixed
Pan
A Childhood: The Biography of a Place
Harry Crews
Rave
Positive
Mixed
Pan
Rave
Positive
Mixed
Pan
The most indelible scene in American literary memoir, for this reader at any rate, occurs about two-thirds of the way into Harry Crews’s A Childhood.
[Crews'] novels...were flawed, but the memoir is flawless, one of the finest ever written by an American.
Of all of Crews’ magnificent output, it is A Childhood: The Biography of a Place, first published in 1978 that is the most memorable and is written in a language that will sear the mind and memory.
In rough-hewn speech fluent as a river and forceful as a hammer blow, Crews captures the warmth, dignity, and brutality of his people and their fierce and awful devotion to home. This is his masterpiece..