Skip to main content alibris logo
A Childhood: The Biography of a Place - Crews, Harry, and Wolff, Tobias (Foreword by)
Filter Results
Item Condition
Seller Rating
Other Options
Change Currency

1935, Bacon County, Georgia. The bite of the Great Depression was beginning to be felt in the rest of America, but its teeth had been in Bacon County for years. Here one of America's most original storytellers, Harry Crews, was born in a sharecropper's cabin at the end of a dirt road. A Childhood is his memoir of that time - his first years of life - and that place: the poor soil and the sickness, the blood feuds and the faith healers, the ghosts and the shopping catalogues. A profound vision of the rural South that ...

loading
A Childhood: The Biography of a Place 2022, Penguin Group

ISBN-13: 9780143135333

Trade paperback

A Childhood: The Biography of a Place 1995, University of Georgia Press, Athens

ISBN-13: 9780820317595

Hardcover