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title: "A Childhood: The Biography of a Place (Penguin Classics)"
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# A Childhood: The Biography of a Place (Penguin Classics)

**Brand:** harry crewstobias wolff
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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    A lost world
  

*by R***T on Reviewed in the United States on May 23, 2016*

Harry Crews grew up in south Georgia in an impoverished sharecropper family. Their poverty and ignorance were almost unbelievable. But their world also contained love and magic, along with alcoholism and domestic violence. Crews was attuned to the nature that surrounded him and took for granted his parents' fights over his father's drinking, his close relationship with a black tenant family on the farm, and everyone around him being poor, illiterate, and marked or maimed by physical labor, accidents, and animals.The father in the book is actually Crews's stepfather. After Crews's father died, when he was about two, his older brother divorced his wife and married Crews's mother. He was a loving father to Crews and his brother, but he grew increasingly drunk and absent. Life on the farm was incredibly hard, but as I said, magical for young Harry. Then he was briefly and painfully crippled by polio at about age five and, just as he recovered, horribly burned when he fell into scalding water at a hog butchering.During both protracted recoveries he was cared for at night by his best friend's grandmother, an elderly black woman who told him outlandish tales that reflected her magical understanding of the world. Even amidst a rich storytelling culture, in which stories immortalized, explained, and helped people endure an unforgiving and often desperate life, Auntie stood out. Her tales, which emphasized unknowable power and mystery and the importance of protective rituals, didn't provide comprehension of phenomena but a way to live with them. Crews learned well—what a fine storyteller is riveting our attention on his life from ages five to about 10, with a flash forward at the end.The tone that Crews creates and his sentence rhythms made this an intoxicating read for me, and the story is compelling—you really want to find out what happens. He conveys his experiences through his childhood point of view, and often in vivid scenes, but using the strong storyteller's voice of an older, wiser, sadder man looking back. Though Crews only occasionally seems to speak to readers in his adult writer's voice, his layering of both childhood and adult perspectives imbues the memoir with depth. We grasp more than he did then, even as we enjoy his childhood innocence and originality.Despite the brutality and harshness of his world, I could not help but envy aspects of its cohesion, which sets up a reader to be unexpectedly moved by Crews's ultimate plight.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    great
  

*by D***R on Reviewed in the United States on July 24, 2023*

Hard to put down. A foreign world but recognizable to any who lived on a farm even in modern times.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    I was engaged throughout the reading but found many of ...
  

*by M***A on Reviewed in the United States on December 4, 2016*

I was engaged throughout the reading but found many of the author's tales from childhood difficult to accept as memoir.  Often these recounting took on the flavour of inflated fantasy perhaps based on the whisp of a real memory.  Certainly the book offers a very real portrait of life in south Georgia in the early and middle twentieth century.  Having been born and brought up in the same environment I found many stories in the book that caused me to stop reading and reflect and remember just how confusing it all was.

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