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“One of the Finest Memoirs Ever Written” –The New Yorker 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.

From Simon & Schuster, Classic Crews is a collection of works from the master Harry Crews, including his memoir and short stories.Collected here is the best of Harry his astoundingly beautiful memoir A The Biography of a Place ; two if his most memorable novels, Car and The Gypsy's Curse ; and three masterly essays, "Climbing the Tower," "The Car," and "Fathers, Sons and Blood," as well as a new introduction to these works by Crews himself.

“Harry Crews is magnificently twisted and brutally funny.” - Carl Hiaasen A Penguin Classic Golden-haired, with the voice of an angel and a reputation as a healer, the Gospel Singer appeared on the cover of LIFE and brought thousands to their knees in Carnegie Hall. But for all his fame, he is a man in mortal torment that drives him back to his obscure and wretched hometown of Enigma, Georgia. But by the time his Cadillac pulls into Enigma, he discovers an old friend is being held at tenuous bay from a lynch mob. As Harry Crews’s first novel unfolds, the Gospel Singer is forced to give way to his torment, and in doing so he reveals to the believers who have gathered at his feet just how little he is God’s man, and how much he has contributed to the corruption of each of them.

Eugene Talmadge Biggs, a young boxer from rural Georgia, faces a unique challenge with his unsettling ability to knock himself out. As he navigates the gritty New Orleans underworld, he encounters morally ambiguous characters that test his resolve. The story captures his tumultuous journey from aspiring champion to a deeper understanding of himself, culminating in a powerful climax where he confronts his truths and strives for self-respect and freedom. This narrative showcases Harry Crews' masterful storytelling and character development.

From the acclaimed author of such novels as "Blood and Grits" and "Childhood" comes a wildly weird and breathtakingly original visit to the rural South that reveals the exotic subculture that erupts in all its glory at the Rattlesnake Roundup in Mystic, Georgia. "No number of adjectives in the thesaurus can do full justice to the dazzlingly bizarre nature of Crews' creations".--"Washington Post Book World".

From the acclaimed author of such novels as "Blood and Grits" and "Childhood" comes a wildly weird and breathtakingly original visit to the rural South that reveals the exotic subculture that erupts in all its glory at the Rattlesnake Roundup in Mystic, Georgia. "No number of adjectives in the thesaurus can do full justice to the dazzlingly bizarre nature of Crews' creations".--"Washington Post Book World".

Now from the author the Washington Post Book World calls "the dark chronicler of human vanity and folly" comes Celebration. The newest black comedy from Harry Crews is a biting, brilliant commentary set in a Florida rest-home gulag where the over-sixty-five set checks its dignity, self-esteem, and social security numbers at the door.Forever and Forever is the aptly named retreat, populated by a motley crew of forgotten wives and ruined men who are waiting for death while working on their tans. The leader of this group is Stump, whose lost arm paid for Forever and Forever, and who believes the silent desperation that infuses the trailer park masks the fact that Forever and Forever is truly a small piece of hell on earth.This ironic silence is shattered by the entrance of a beautiful young bombshell. Too Much is her name, and that is exactly what she is. This walking bonfire awakens long dead appetites in the inhabitants of Forever and Forever, reminding them of what they once were and can be again—a live.

The bizarremeister of gothic Americana, hailed as "pure gold" by The New York Times, returns with a hilarious satire on the dream of America's Everyman to succeed. Crews again unleashes his savage wit in his tale of door-to-door soap salesman Hickum Looney.

Approaching a liberal arts tradition in the classroom, across the curriculum, and beyond, The McGraw-Hill Reader offers rich and diverse readings in education, the social sciences, business and economics, the humanities, and the sciences. This new eleventh edition offers a new focus on reading and composing across various media; it includes over 100 selections from prominent thinkers and writers; each essay was chosen to provoke critical thought and encourage effective writing.

Südflorida, in den Siebziger Jahren: Stump, ein ausgebrannter Kriegs-Veteran, erbt Geld und investiert in ein großes Grundstück, das er zu einem Trailer Park für Senioren ausbaut. Er lockt Rentner aus dem Norden mit falschen Versprechen nach „Forever and Forever“. Doch anstatt den Ruhestand zu genießen, sollen die Alten schnell und unauffällig dahinscheiden. Die Situation ändert sich, als die junge und atemberaubende Too Much auftaucht. Sie gibt Stump, der bei einem Unfall eine Hand verloren hat, seine Männlichkeit zurück, verlangt jedoch die Kontrolle über den Trailer Park. Ihr Ziel ist es, den Bewohnern die Vitalität der Jugend zurückzugeben. Zunächst sind ihre Methoden, die von der Macht des Sexus beflügelt werden, erfolgreich, doch bald gibt es den ersten Toten. Mit einer Mischung aus überdrehter Südstaaten-Gothik und libertär-anarchistischem Existenzialismus vereint der Autor die schonungslose Seelenausweidung eines James M. Cain mit der Abgeklärtheit eines Norman Mailer und dem Sarkasmus des frühen Tom Wolfe. In grellen Farben wird der Mikrokosmos einer Gemeinschaft skizziert, die zwischen Senilität und Aufbegehren schwankt, und es bleibt unklar, was bedrohlicher ist: das Elend des Alterns oder das Diktat der Jugend.