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"My compulsive need to look for the edge and live on it has marked me in more ways than I would want to know or try to explain. Never mind the marks it has left on my skin, let me go straight to the bone," Crews writes in the introduction to this collection. And, in each of the works, he is more than willing to open a few wounds. The book includes two of his full-length novels, The Gypsy's Curse and Car; his autobiography, A Childhood: The Biography of a Place; and three of his essays, "Fathers, Sons, Blood," "The Car," and "Climbing the Tower." Each piece is remarkable on its own, and the book takes special advantage of the illumination afforded by grouping the essays with the fiction in particular ways. For example, "The Car," an essay about Crews' youthful fixation with automobiles, precedes Car, a novel about a young man born to an auto-wrecker who takes such an obsession to a different realm. That character achieves fame and notoriety in Sarasota, Florida, by announcing his intention to eat a Ford Maverick in public view at a downtown hotel. The book promises to provide new insights to confirmed fans, as well as a valuable introduction for the uninitiated. Martha Schoolman
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Collected here is the best of Harry Crews: his astoundingly beautiful memoir "A Childhood: The Biography of a Place; " two of his most memorable novels, "Car" and "The Gypsy's Curse; " and three masterly essays, "Climbing the Tower, " "The Car, " and "Fathers, Sons and Blood, " as well as a new introduction to these works by Crews himself.
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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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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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5.0 out of 5 stars
Souther Renaissance continues,
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This review is from: Classic Crews: A Harry Crews Reader (Paperback)
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.
3.0 out of 5 stars
Uncle Anesthesia,
By "sivagish13" (Raleigh, NC) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Classic Crews: A Harry Crews Reader (Paperback)
The first story of this book was a gripping read. I enjoyed it very much. He and I had far different backgrounds and grew up in a completely different world but at times Crews portrays his feelings and world and makes it both common and familiar. I highly recommend the first story of the book. The others do not get such high regard. They are worth reading but very strange. His imagination got away from him, I think.
5.0 out of 5 stars
A great friggin' writer.,
By Matt coppens (Grand Rapids, MI) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Classic Crews: A Harry Crews Reader (Paperback)
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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