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ISBN-10: 0820351393
ISBN-13: 9780820351391
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Publish Date: 05/15/2017
Dimensions: 9.00" L, 6.00" W, 1.15" H

Blood, Bone, and Marrow: A Biography of Harry Crews

Foreword by: Michael Connelly

Paperback

Price: $26.95

Overview

In 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.”

The result is Blood, Bone, and Marrow, 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 Scar Lover, Body, and Naked in Garden Hills, 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.

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Harry Crews was a uniquely gifted and haunted storyteller. Novelist, journalist, memoirist–he made each form his own in a way no one else had before or since. The pages that follow in this absorbing biography detail this and reach into the guts of the experiences that formed him and gave him a voice that was sad, brutal, and funny. Harry said that when it came to writing the truth about himself–or anything for that matter–he was not as interested in facts as he was in memory and belief.–Michael Connelly, from the foreword
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Details

ISBN-10: 0820351393
ISBN-13: 9780820351391
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Publish Date: 05/15/2017
Dimensions: 9.00" L, 6.00" W, 1.15" H
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