
Tobias Wolff on Harry Crews’ ‘A Childhood: The Biography of a Place’
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A Book of Penguin Classics by Harry Cruze
This book was written for my boy byron jason cruze, who, as i understand it, is himself a teacher of writing. These share croppers did not consider themselves or call themselves slaves, but they might as well have. It's a extraordinary life that involves the formation of community in defence against pestilence, cruelty, illness and hunger. And this is the book that harry cruze writes about his childhood. He had one son, and he dedicates the book to his young one.
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