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Geltner, Ted, author.
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Crews, Harry, 1935-2012.
Novelists, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
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Blood, bone, and marrow : a biography of Harry Crews / Ted Geltner.
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Geltner, Ted, author.
Athens : The University of Georgia Press, c2016.
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Crews, Harry, 1935-2012.
Novelists, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
ISBN:
9780820349237 (hardcover : alkaline paper)
0820349232 (hardcover : alkaline paper)
Description:
xii, 414 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents:
Part one. There is no road up, no path -- Bacon county -- Dreams and nightmares -- Jacksonville -- The marines -- King of the road -- Mr. Lytle -- Married life -- A self-education -- Hope fades -- Broward blues -- Gold from a coal mine -- Part two. Top of the mountain -- Arrival -- Second time around -- A new form of combat -- Berkeley of the south -- The hawk flies -- Melrose -- Free agent -- No man's land -- Playboy journalist -- Grit journalism -- End of the feast -- A sense of place -- Part three. Descent -- Hard work -- Muscle memory -- Violence finds us -- The racist gene -- A messy business -- The worm farm -- Part four. We are all of us passing through -- An acquired taste -- Stage craft -- Out of the bottle -- Scarred over -- Assault from within -- Curtain call -- Last stop.
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"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." -- Publisher's description
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Hawaii State Library
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813.54 Crews Ge
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