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Tobias Wolff on Harry Crews’ ‘A Childhood: The Biography of a Place’

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A Childhood by Harry Crewz

This is a book with enormous heart. It's not enormous generosity. And it's frequently heart breaking in re reading it. Harry crews comments that it was not uncommon for drunken men down south to shoot at their wives who were growing old. In these share cropping communities in georgia in the 19 thirties, these women were growing old before they were 30. So this is a very distinct american book that asks us to understand not just the courtship of boy and girl, but the courtships of mule and mule. Mules don't breed, but they do court, apparently, according to harry cruz,.In this book, a childhood, which bears

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