{"product_id":"a-childhood-a-childhood-the-biography-of-a-place-9780143135333","title":"A Childhood: A Childhood: The Biography of a Place","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"One of the Finest Memoirs Ever Written\" -\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eA Childhood\u003c\/i\u003e has been widely recognized as a masterpiece, a Dickensian document of survival and blight in Depression-era Georgia.\"\u003ci\u003e -Harper's\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe highly acclaimed memoir of one of the most original American storytellers of the rural South \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Penguin Classic\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHarry 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Penguin Adult Hc\/Tr\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/15\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780143135333\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.64h x 5.04w x 0.63d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/01\/2022 pg. 88\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Harry Crews","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52107745427637,"sku":"9780143135333","price":13.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_154f21d0-e51a-4f9e-a1e5-c462df0de026.jpg?v=1765862114","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/a-childhood-a-childhood-the-biography-of-a-place-9780143135333","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}