A Childhood: The Biography of a Place

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Harry Crews has built a career on the uncompromising, darkly comic examination of American life. In A Childhood: The Biography of a Place, he applies his distinctive lens to the subject closest to him — his own upbringing in Georgia. This is not a conventional memoir. Instead, Crews treats his childhood home as a character in itself, constructing a biography of the house and the land that shaped him.\n\nThrough sharp prose and unflinching honesty, the book captures the specific textures of Southern life with both humor and pathos. It is a powerful meditation on how place forms identity and how memory reconstructs what we thought we knew. For readers of serious literary fiction and fans of Southern writing, this is an essential addition.

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