Classic Crews

Author: Harry Crews
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0671865277
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 452

Book Description
Includes two of Crews' full-length novels, The Gypsy's Curse and Car, his autobiography, and three of his essays.

Blood and Grits

Author: Harry Crews
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 232

Book Description

A Childhood

Author: Harry Crews
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0143135333
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 193

Book 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.

Scar Lover

Author: Harry Crews
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0671797867
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 292

Book Description
In a dozen novels and his non-fiction books and articles, Harry Crews has shown himself to be a true American original. With Scar Lovers he returns to the familiar, unmistakable "Crews territory"--a Southern landscape peopled by quirky, odd, and oddly appealing individuals--to explore the realities of redemption and the power of love without boundries of fear.

The Gypsy's Curse

Author: Harry Crews
Publisher: Markham, Ont. : Simon & Schuster of Canada
ISBN: 9780671806880
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 190

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The Knockout Artist

Author: Harry Crews
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0593512022
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 273

Book Description
Crews’s novel about a boxer with the gift of knocking himself unconscious, with a new foreword by New York Times-bestselling author S. A. Cosby A Penguin Classic A favorite of longtime Harry Crews fans, The Knockout Artist (1988) portrays Eugene Talmadge Biggs, a young boxer from rural Georgia whose champion rise is diverted by a vulnerability, or gift, for knocking himself unconscious. As he begins to exploit his talents, the notorious Knockout Artist journeys a hero’s descent into the New Orleans underworld and meets characters who have long since checked their morals at the door. The unforgettable climax shows Crews at his virtuoso best, when Eugene confronts his truth, and sets out to claim his freedom and win his own self-respect.

Ten Black Dots

Author: Donald Crews
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0688135749
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34

Book Description
First published in 1968, Ten Black Dots is a counting book, a book of simple rhymes, and a book of everyday objects.

Freight Train

Author: Donald Crews
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0062120476
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 27

Book Description
In simple, powerful words and vibrant illustrations, Donald Crews evokes the rolling wheels of that childhood favorite: a train. This Caldecott Honor Book features bright colors and bold shapes. Even a child not lucky enough to have counted freight cars will feel he or she has watched a freight train passing after reading Freight Train. Donald Crews used childhood memories of trains seen during his travels to his grandparents' farm in the American South as the inspiration for this timeless favorite. New York magazine's The Strategist chose Freight Train as one of the "Best (Nonobvious) Baby Books to Bring to a Shower." As The Strategist stated: "The Caldecott Honor Book is spare and minimal in both art and text and follows the journey of a freight train and all its cars until it rolls off the page and into the distance. It’s a good way to learn all the different names of train cars, too." Red caboose at the back, orange tank car, green cattle car, purple box car, black tender and a black steam engine . . . freight train.

Below

Author: Nina Crews
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780805077285
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40

Book Description
Jack has adventures and rescues with his action-figure, Guy.

A Feast of Snakes

Author: Harry Crews
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0684842483
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 195

Book Description
From the acclaimed author of such novels as "Blood and Grits" and "Childhood" comes a wildly weird and breathtakingly original visit to the rural South that reveals the exotic subculture that erupts in all its glory at the Rattlesnake Roundup in Mystic, Georgia. "No number of adjectives in the thesaurus can do full justice to the dazzlingly bizarre nature of Crews' creations".--"Washington Post Book World".