Blood, Bone, and Marrow: A Biography of Harry Crews
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- Synopsis
- &“Brilliantly renders the life of the late writer Harry Crews . . . It captures the wild spirit of an unflinching American writer.&”—Publishers Weekly (starred review) 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 lens on 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. &“Harry Crews led a big, strange, sad and somehow very American life. It is well told here.&”—The New York Times
- Copyright:
- 2016
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- Book Size:
- 453 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9780820349244
- Related ISBNs:
- 9780820349237
- Publisher:
- University of Georgia Press
- Date of Addition:
- 09/16/23
- Copyrighted By:
- The University of Georgia Press
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Nonfiction, Biographies and Memoirs, Sociology
- Submitted By:
- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.
- Foreword by:
- Michael Connelly