Pete huye de un pasado lacerante, trabaja a destajo en un almacén de carga y evita cualquier tipo de contacto humano. No quiere que nadie le salpique con sus problemas. Y todo le va más o menos bien hasta que Sarah, la extraña muchach...
La época de niñez recuperada de esta novela es el destino del que el autor se marchó a los diecisiete años con idea de no volver. No la miserable cabaña de arrendatarios en la que siendo apenas un bebé amaneci&oac...
Coincidiendo con la llegada de un circo de freaks, un joven con voz de ángel, convertido en un próspero cantante de gospel, regresa a su pueblo, Enigma, donde están a punto de linchar a un negro por matar y violar a la que fuera su...
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...
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...
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...
Celebrated for his slightly warped comic and moral vision of contemporary America, the author Harry Crews tells the story of a door-to-door salesman's struggle with his Boss, a man with a genius for selling junk.
Collected here is the best of Harry Crews: his astoundingly beautiful memoir A Childhood: 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...
Scar Lover is a miraculous, true-to-the-bone story of love and redemption, at once a classic southern novel and purely, unmistakably, Harry Crews. Running from a past that has scarred and blamed him, and a tragic accident that has destroyed his family,...