e-branch
Login
My List - 0
Help
Home
My Account/Renew Loans
Community Info
KidSearch
New Catalogue!
Search
Advanced
By Format
By Number
My Searches
Can't Find it?
Find Magazine Articles & more
Problems?
Search:
Call Number
Item Barcode
Bib Number
ISBN/ISSN
Refine Search
> You're searching:
Halifax Public Libraries
Item Information
Copy / Holding Information
Choice Review
Publisher Weekly Review
More Content
More by this author
Geltner, Ted.
Subjects
Crews, Harry, 1935-2012.
Novelists, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
Southern States -- Social life and customs -- Fiction -- Authorship -- Biography.
Southern States -- Fiction -- Authorship -- Biography.
Browse Catalog
by author:
Geltner, Ted.
by title:
Blood, bone, and mar...
by call number:
921 C9272g
Search the Web
Geltner, Ted.
Crews, Harry, 1935-2012.
Novelists, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
Southern States -- Social life and customs -- Fiction -- Authorship -- Biography.
Southern States -- Fiction -- Authorship -- Biography.
MARC Display
Blood, bone, and marrow : a biography of Harry Crews / Ted Geltner.
by
Geltner, Ted.
The University of Georgia Press, 2016.
Call #:
921
C9272g
Subjects
Crews, Harry, 1935-2012.
Novelists, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
Southern States -- Social life and customs -- Fiction -- Authorship -- Biography.
Southern States -- Fiction -- Authorship -- Biography.
ISBN:
9780820349237 (hc.)
Description:
xii, 414 p., [24] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Part one. There is no road up, no path -- Bacon county -- Dreams and nightmares -- Jacksonville -- The marines -- King of the road -- Mr. Lytle -- Married life -- A self-education -- Hope fades -- Broward blues -- Gold from a coal mine -- Part two. Top of the mountain -- Arrival -- Second time around -- A new form of combat -- Berkeley of the south -- The hawk flies -- Melrose -- Free agent -- No man's land -- Playboy journalist -- Grit journalism -- End of the feast -- A sense of place -- Part three. Descent -- Hard work -- Muscle memory -- Violence finds us -- The racist gene -- A messy business -- The worm farm -- Part four. We are all of us passing through -- An acquired taste -- Stage craft -- Out of the bottle -- Scarred over -- Assault from within -- Curtain call -- Last stop.
Summary:
"A biography of one of the most unlikely figures in twentieth-century American literature, a writer who emerged from a dirt-poor South Georgia tenant farm and went on to create a singularly unique voice of fiction. With books such as Scar Lover, Body, The Gospel Singer and Naked in Garden Hills, Crews opened a new window into southern life, focusing his lens on the poor and disenfranchised, the people who skinned the hogs and tended the fields, the "grits," as Crews affectionately called his characters and himself. He lived by a code of his own design, flouting authority and baring his soul, and the stories of his whiskey-and-blood-soaked lifestyle created a myth to match any of his fictional creations. His outlaw life, his distinctive voice and the context in which he lived combine to form the elements of a singularly compelling narrative.
Genre:
Biographies.
Holds:
0
Copy/Holding information
Location
Collection
Call No.
Item type
Status
Sackville Public Library
Adult Biography
921 C9272g
Adult books
Checked in
Add Copy to MyList
Horizon Information Portal 3.24_8902M
© 2001-2013
SirsiDynix
All rights reserved.