Includes two of Crews' full-length novels, The Gypsy's Curse and Car, his autobiography, and three of his essays.
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MY first memory is of a time ten years before I was born, and the memory takes place where I have never been and involves my daddy whom I never knew. Read the first page
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A photo of Harry Crews adorns the front cover of this collection of two novels, an autobiography, and several essays. He looks mean, tough, a tattoo on his right arm bears the legend, 'How do you like your blue eyed boy, Mr. Death?' Read the autobiography 'A Childhood: A Biography of a Place', and you will find out why. Harry Crews learnt to write by reading Graham Greene's 'The End of the Affair'. He did not just read it, but spent a year taking it apart, bit by bit, to find out how it worked, why it worked. Then he began writing. The novels here pretty much defy description. At the conclusion to one of them I worried I might have nightmares. I didn't, but I could not shake the damn thing out of my head for weeks afterwards. If you have never read Harry Crews before, this is the best place to start.
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A new twist on an old tradition
1 Oct 2000
By Kim Taylor
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If you like the bizarre "Southern Gothic" of Carson McCullers and Flannery O'Connor -- and if you appreciate thoughtful variations on established themes -- then Harry Crews is a novelist well worth your time. He'll probably never make it into the canon, but his work compares favorably with the best American postmodernists, and this is one time when it's best to forget what your English teacher tells you and form your own opinion. Unlike some of the postmodernists, Crews's startling originality is always rooted in palpably human experience; his characters, strange though they may be, never cease to function as PEOPLE, first and foremost. Highly recommended for readers who appreciate a vibrant style and a conscious twist on familiar literary traditions. One of the best American writers of the past 30 years.
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Souther Renaissance continues
27 Feb 2003
By S. H. Wells
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Debates about the waning brilliance of Southern litterature can be silenced after reading Harry Crews (I recommend as much of his work as possible, but the Reader is a good place to start). There is none of the sentimental, 'local-color' work of, say, Fannie Flagg or Rebecca Wells in Harry Crews's work. Harry Crews's work is like a rabid pit bull that bites and won't let go. His brilliance and artistry as writer are coupled with a sharpness that cuts into institutions and beliefs, exposing them and questioning them. Few shibboleths of America can escape.
Find Harry Crews's work. Buy Harry Crews's work.
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A great friggin' writer.
23 Sep 2002
By Matt coppens
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This was the first book I read by Harry Crews. After reading this I went out and bought every other Crews book still in print. After buying all the Crews books still in print I hit up the used bookstores for any of Crews's out of print titles. Harry Crews is excellent, and this is the absolute best place to start reading his work. He's an extremely descriptive writer, and a most entertaining storyteller, the best of both worlds. How Crews is able to think up the sort of characters he writes about is beyond me. He'll write about something so screwed up and whacked out that you know it could never happen, but at the same time makes you believe that what's going on really could happen. Crews has an excellent way of getting in your head and staying there, whether it be his novels or his essays Harry Crews is a true original. Once you read this I'm sure you'll start out on a search for anything and everything he's done.
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