{"product_id":"blood-bone-and-marrow-a-biography-of-harry-crews-9780820351391","title":"Blood, Bone, and Marrow: A Biography of Harry Crews","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 2010, Ted Geltner drove to Gainesville, Florida, to pay a visit to Harry Crews and ask the legendary author if he would be willing to be the subject of a literary biography. His health rapidly deteriorating, Crews told Geltner he was on board and would even sit for interviews and tell his stories one last time. \"Ask me anything you want, bud,\" Crews said. \"But you'd better do it quick.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe result is \u003ci\u003eBlood, Bone, and Marrow\u003c\/i\u003e, the first full-length biography of one of the most unlikely figures in twentieth-century American literature, a writer who emerged from a dirt-poor South Georgia tenant farm and went on to create a singularly unique voice of fiction. With books such as \u003ci\u003eScar Lover\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBody\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eNaked in Garden Hills, \u003c\/i\u003e Crews opened a new window into southern life, focusing his lenson the poor and disenfranchised, the people who skinned the hogs and tended the fields, the \"grits,\" as Crews affectionately called his characters and himself. He lived by a code of his own design, flouting authority and baring his soul, and the stories of his whiskey-and-blood-soaked lifestyle created a myth to match any of his fictional creations. His outlaw life, his distinctive voice and the context in which he lived combine to form the elements of a singularly compelling narrative about an underappreciated literary treasure.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Georgia Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/15\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780820351391\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 462\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.49lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.02h x 5.98w x 1.03d","brand":"Ted Geltner","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36644773134492,"sku":"9780820351391","price":24.61,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_30b13cfa-6580-4d1b-8a4f-43aaebdf0078.jpg?v=1603859442","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/blood-bone-and-marrow-a-biography-of-harry-crews-9780820351391","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}