Born the son of a Georgia sharecropper and raised during the Depression, Crews recreates the world of his youth with tales of his friends and relatives, some amusing, some violent and tragic

Childhood: The Biography of a Place

CREWS, Harry

Biographies & Memoirs

Harper&Row

Chronicles the story of Duffy Deeter, a Florida lawyer obsessed with fitness and images of death; his wife Tish, a platinum blond having an affair with his law partner, and Duffy's girlfriend Marvella, a coke-snorting nymphet

All We Need of Hell

Literature & Fiction

Eugene Talmadge Biggs escapes poverty in Georgia to become a boxer in New Orleans, selling his soul to the city's seamy underworld for money to send home to his family

The Knockout Artist: A Novel

Harpercollins

Profiles of Charles Bronson and Robert Blake, descriptions of Appalachian hillbillies, and an account of life with a traveling carnival are among the nonfiction selections which, taken collectively, provide insight into Harry Crews the man

Blood and Grits

Perennial Library/Harper & Row

All We Need of Hell: A Novel

The Knockout Artist

When a local boy returns to Enigma, Georgia as a successful gospel singer, the townspeople, who idolize him, begin to attribute him with healing powers he knows he doesn't have

The Gospel Singer: A Novel

United States

“Harry Crews is magnificently twisted and brutally funny.” - Carl Hiaasen\nA Penguin Classic\nGolden-haired, with the voice of an angel and a reputation as a healer, the Gospel Singer appeared on the cover of LIFE and brought thousands to their knees in Carnegie Hall. But for all his fame, he is a man in mortal torment that drives him back to his obscure and wretched hometown of Enigma, Georgia. But by the time his Cadillac pulls into Enigma, he discovers an old friend is being held at tenuous bay from a lynch mob. As Harry Crews’s first novel unfolds, the Gospel Singer is forced to give way to his torment, and in doing so he reveals to the believers who have gathered at his feet just how little he is God’s man, and how much he has contributed to the corruption of each of them.

The Gospel Singer

Penguin Classics

“One of the Finest Memoirs Ever Written” –The New Yorker\nThe highly acclaimed memoir of one of the most original American storytellers of the rural South\nA Penguin Classic\nHarry Crews grew up as the son of a sharecropper in Georgia at a time when “the rest of the country was just beginning to feel the real hurt of the Great Depression but it had been living in Bacon County for years.” Yet what he conveys in this moving, brutal autobiography of his first six years of life is an elegiac sense of community and roots from a rural South that had rarely been represented in this way. Interweaving his own memories including his bout with polio and a fascination with the Sears, Roebuck catalog, with the tales of relatives and friends, he re-creates a childhood of tenderness and violence, comedy and tragedy.

A Childhood: The Biography of a Place (Penguin Classics)

Historical

The Knockout Artist (Penguin Classics)

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