Name: A Childhood
ISBN: 9780143135333

Who It's For

Good for readers who enjoy History / United States / State & Local / General
Good for fans of Memoir
Strong fit for readers who prefer grounded, real-world context.

What You Get

Themes: History, Biography, Biographies.
Reading lane: United States and Biography & Autobiography.
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group.

About This Book

“One of the Finest Memoirs Ever Written” – The New Yorker “ A Childhood has been widely recognized as a masterpiece, a Dickensian document of survival and blight in Depression-era Georgia.” –Harper’s 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...

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“One of the Finest Memoirs Ever Written” – The New Yorker “ A Childhood has been widely recognized as a masterpiece, a Dickensian document of survival and blight in Depression-era Georgia.” –Harper’s 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.