
Tobias Wolff on Harry Crews’ ‘A Childhood: The Biography of a Place’
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The Book of a Place by Harry Cruze
Toby Clary is going to read from a childhood, the biography of a place by harry cruze. Cruz was taken off, as weave said, by his mother and grew up this poor, violent place. He fell into a boiling cauldron at one point that was being used to to boil the bristles off of the hide of pigs; it boiled his own skin off. The four boys perceptibly flinched when they turned to look at me. I had already done what in bacon county was unthinkable. I had cursed the sun. And in bacon county, you do not curse the sun or the rain or the land or god. They are all the same thing. To
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