A Childhood: The Biography of a Place (Unabridged) A Childhood: The Biography of a Place (Unabridged)

A Childhood: The Biography of a Place (Unabridged‪)‬

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Publisher Description

“One of the Finest Memoirs Ever Written” –The New Yorker
 
The highly acclaimed memoir of one of the most original American storytellers of the rural South

A Penguin Classic

Harry 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. 
 

GENRE
Biographies & Memoirs
NARRATOR
MG
Matt Godfrey
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
06:43
hr min
RELEASED
2022
March 15
PUBLISHER
Penguin Audio
SIZE
402.6
MB

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