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Harry Crews’s memoir, *A Childhood*, offers a sharply detailed portrait of his earliest years in a one-room sharecropper’s cabin in Bacon County, Georgia, amid the hardships of the Great Depression. The book blends observations of poverty, blood feuds, and the mysticism of local folklore—snakes, faith healers, and conjure women—with Crews’s developing sense of self and the raw courage needed to survive. Through this intimate reflection, readers gain insight into the social life, customs, and environment that shaped an emerging American novelist.
First publish date: 1978
Genre: Memoir/Personal Memoir
Authors: Harry Crews
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