Author: Harry Crews
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Harry Crews turns the classic rags-to-riches story on its head in this hilarious saga of the trials and tribulations of a beleaguered salesman. "An over-the-top comedy in which the veteran wild man of redneck fiction casts his satirical eye on the all-American world of door-to-door sales".--Kirkus Reviews.
The Mulching of America
Author: Harry Crews
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Harry Crews turns the classic rags-to-riches story on its head in this hilarious saga of the trials and tribulations of a beleaguered salesman. "An over-the-top comedy in which the veteran wild man of redneck fiction casts his satirical eye on the all-American world of door-to-door sales".--Kirkus Reviews.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Harry Crews turns the classic rags-to-riches story on its head in this hilarious saga of the trials and tribulations of a beleaguered salesman. "An over-the-top comedy in which the veteran wild man of redneck fiction casts his satirical eye on the all-American world of door-to-door sales".--Kirkus Reviews.
Classic Crews
Author: Harry Crews
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0671865277
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
Includes two of Crews' full-length novels, The Gypsy's Curse and Car, his autobiography, and three of his essays.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0671865277
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
Includes two of Crews' full-length novels, The Gypsy's Curse and Car, his autobiography, and three of his essays.
Celebration
Author: Harry Crews
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
A comedy on a retirement community in Florida, featuring a young woman whose mission is to make old men feel young. Geriatrics, sex and laughs.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
A comedy on a retirement community in Florida, featuring a young woman whose mission is to make old men feel young. Geriatrics, sex and laughs.
Trees of North America
Author: Christian Frank Brockman
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1582380929
Category : Trees
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Presents a handbook for the identification of over five hundred species of trees by illustration and text.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1582380929
Category : Trees
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Presents a handbook for the identification of over five hundred species of trees by illustration and text.
A Feast of Snakes
Author: Harry Crews
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0684842483
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 195
Book Description
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 Roundup in Mystic, Georgia. "No number of adjectives in the thesaurus can do full justice to the dazzlingly bizarre nature of Crews' creations".--"Washington Post Book World".
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0684842483
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 195
Book Description
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 Roundup in Mystic, Georgia. "No number of adjectives in the thesaurus can do full justice to the dazzlingly bizarre nature of Crews' creations".--"Washington Post Book World".
A Childhood
Author: Harry Crews
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0143135333
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
“One of the Finest Memoirs Ever Written” –The New Yorker The highly acclaimed memoir of one of the most original American storytellers of the rural South A Penguin Classic 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 moving, brutal autobiography of his first six years of life is an elegiac sense of community and roots from a rural South that had rarely been represented in this way. Interweaving his own memories including his bout with polio and a fascination with the Sears, Roebuck catalog, with the tales of relatives and friends, he re-creates a childhood of tenderness and violence, comedy and tragedy.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0143135333
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
“One of the Finest Memoirs Ever Written” –The New Yorker The highly acclaimed memoir of one of the most original American storytellers of the rural South A Penguin Classic 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 moving, brutal autobiography of his first six years of life is an elegiac sense of community and roots from a rural South that had rarely been represented in this way. Interweaving his own memories including his bout with polio and a fascination with the Sears, Roebuck catalog, with the tales of relatives and friends, he re-creates a childhood of tenderness and violence, comedy and tragedy.
Scar Lover
Author: Harry Crews
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0671797867
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
In a dozen novels and his non-fiction books and articles, Harry Crews has shown himself to be a true American original. With Scar Lovers he returns to the familiar, unmistakable "Crews territory"--a Southern landscape peopled by quirky, odd, and oddly appealing individuals--to explore the realities of redemption and the power of love without boundries of fear.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0671797867
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
In a dozen novels and his non-fiction books and articles, Harry Crews has shown himself to be a true American original. With Scar Lovers he returns to the familiar, unmistakable "Crews territory"--a Southern landscape peopled by quirky, odd, and oddly appealing individuals--to explore the realities of redemption and the power of love without boundries of fear.
Tell Us We're Home
Author: Marina Budhos
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1442406100
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Jaya is from Trinidad, Maria is from Mexico, and Lola is from Slovakia. The girls couldn’t be more different, except for two things: They’re all the daughters of maids and nannies in their prosperous suburban town of Meadowbrook, and they all long to fit in and succeed among their more privileged peers. But when Jaya’s mother is accused of stealing some valuable jewelry from her employer, the seemingly liberal town of Meadowbrook becomes a place of ugly tensions and racism, and the girls’ friendship threatens to buckle under the strain. Once again, Marina Budhos has written a thoughtful and ambitious novel about class and the cultural differences that can both divide and unite.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1442406100
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Jaya is from Trinidad, Maria is from Mexico, and Lola is from Slovakia. The girls couldn’t be more different, except for two things: They’re all the daughters of maids and nannies in their prosperous suburban town of Meadowbrook, and they all long to fit in and succeed among their more privileged peers. But when Jaya’s mother is accused of stealing some valuable jewelry from her employer, the seemingly liberal town of Meadowbrook becomes a place of ugly tensions and racism, and the girls’ friendship threatens to buckle under the strain. Once again, Marina Budhos has written a thoughtful and ambitious novel about class and the cultural differences that can both divide and unite.
The Age of American Unreason
Author: Susan Jacoby
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 1400096383
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
A scathing indictment of American modern-day culture examines the current disdain for logic and evidence fostered by the mass media, religious fundamentalism, poor public education, a lack of fair-minded intellectuals, and a lazy, credulous public, condemning our addiction to infotainment, from TV to the Web, and assessing its repercussions for the country as a whole. Reprint. 75,000 first printing.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 1400096383
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
A scathing indictment of American modern-day culture examines the current disdain for logic and evidence fostered by the mass media, religious fundamentalism, poor public education, a lack of fair-minded intellectuals, and a lazy, credulous public, condemning our addiction to infotainment, from TV to the Web, and assessing its repercussions for the country as a whole. Reprint. 75,000 first printing.
Naked in Garden Hills
Author: Harry Crews
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Florida
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
"I am not perfect." It came out in a rush of breath. "See I thought I was. Thank God I ain't. See a perfect thing ain't got a chance. The world kills it, everything perfect. (Listen to him!) Now see a thing that ain't perfect, it grows like a weed. Yeah, like a weed! A thing that ain't perfect gets hand clapping, smiles, takes the wire an easy winner. But the world ain't set up right if you perfect. You lible to run right into a brick wall. Looks like suicide. All the weeds say, looka there, it suicide!"
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Florida
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
"I am not perfect." It came out in a rush of breath. "See I thought I was. Thank God I ain't. See a perfect thing ain't got a chance. The world kills it, everything perfect. (Listen to him!) Now see a thing that ain't perfect, it grows like a weed. Yeah, like a weed! A thing that ain't perfect gets hand clapping, smiles, takes the wire an easy winner. But the world ain't set up right if you perfect. You lible to run right into a brick wall. Looks like suicide. All the weeds say, looka there, it suicide!"