The Resource A childhood : the biography of a place, Harry Crews ; foreword by Tobias Wolff
A childhood : the biography of a place, Harry Crews ; foreword by Tobias Wolff
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The item A childhood : the biography of a place, Harry Crews ; foreword by Tobias Wolff represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Williamsburg Regional Library.
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- Summary
- "This memoir by Harry Crews captures the first six years of his life among impoverished tenant farmer families in rural southern Georgia. Crews shares details of farm life, his father's death, his friendship with the son of a Black hired hand; his bout with polio; his mother and stepfather's failing marriage; his near-fatal scalding at a hog-killing; and a five-month sojourn in Jacksonville, Florida. As an introduction to Crews's fiction, this portrait of the people, locales, circumstances, and Bacon County lore that shaped him, offers a foundation of the writer's outlook, the refuge he found in his storytelling imagination, and his affection for the outsider, the outcast, and those considered freakish"--
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xiv, 176 pages
- Note
- "First published in the United States of America by Harper & Row Publishers, 1978. Published with a foreword by Tobias Wolff in Penguin Books, 2022"--Title page verso
- Isbn
- 9780143135333
- Label
- A childhood : the biography of a place
- Title
- A childhood
- Title remainder
- the biography of a place
- Statement of responsibility
- Harry Crews ; foreword by Tobias Wolff
- Subject
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- trueBacon County, Georgia
- trueBacon County, Georgia -- Biography
- Crews, Harry, 1935-2012 -- Childhood and youth
- trueGeorgia
- Novelists, American -- 20th century -- Biography
- truePoverty
- trueRural children
- trueRural boys
- trueSouthern States
- trueAuthors, American
- Autobiographies
- trueAutobiography
- Bacon County (Ga.) -- Biography
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "This memoir by Harry Crews captures the first six years of his life among impoverished tenant farmer families in rural southern Georgia. Crews shares details of farm life, his father's death, his friendship with the son of a Black hired hand; his bout with polio; his mother and stepfather's failing marriage; his near-fatal scalding at a hog-killing; and a five-month sojourn in Jacksonville, Florida. As an introduction to Crews's fiction, this portrait of the people, locales, circumstances, and Bacon County lore that shaped him, offers a foundation of the writer's outlook, the refuge he found in his storytelling imagination, and his affection for the outsider, the outcast, and those considered freakish"--
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
- Biography type
- autobiography
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 10079374
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1935-2012
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Crews, Harry
- Dewey number
-
- 813/.54
- B
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PS3553.R46
- LC item number
- Z46 2022
- Literary form
- non fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorDate
- 1945-
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
- Wolff, Tobias
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- Series statement
- Penguin classics
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Crews, Harry
- Novelists, American
- Bacon County (Ga.)
- Target audience
- adult
- http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/titleRemainder
- the biography of a place
- http://bibfra.me/vocab/relation/writerofforeword
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- Label
- A childhood : the biography of a place, Harry Crews ; foreword by Tobias Wolff
- Note
- "First published in the United States of America by Harper & Row Publishers, 1978. Published with a foreword by Tobias Wolff in Penguin Books, 2022"--Title page verso
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 20 cm.
- Extent
- xiv, 176 pages
- Isbn
- 9780143135333
- Lccn
- 2021029407
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
-
- on1258040298
- (OCoLC)1258040298
- Label
- A childhood : the biography of a place, Harry Crews ; foreword by Tobias Wolff
- Note
- "First published in the United States of America by Harper & Row Publishers, 1978. Published with a foreword by Tobias Wolff in Penguin Books, 2022"--Title page verso
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 20 cm.
- Extent
- xiv, 176 pages
- Isbn
- 9780143135333
- Lccn
- 2021029407
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
-
- on1258040298
- (OCoLC)1258040298
Subject
- trueBacon County, Georgia
- trueBacon County, Georgia -- Biography
- Crews, Harry, 1935-2012 -- Childhood and youth
- trueGeorgia
- Novelists, American -- 20th century -- Biography
- truePoverty
- trueRural children
- trueRural boys
- trueSouthern States
- trueAuthors, American
- Autobiographies
- trueAutobiography
- Bacon County (Ga.) -- Biography
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