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Classic Crews: A Harry Crews Reader
enlarge	Author: Harry Crews Publisher: Touchstone Category: Book List Price: ~~$26.99~~ Buy Used: $3.04 as of 9/6/2010 02:33 PDT details You Save: $23.95 (89%) New (23) Used (52) from $3.04 Seller: oncesoldtales Media: Paperback Edition: First Edition Pages: 448 Number Of Items: 1 Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3 Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 6.2 x 1 ISBN: 0671865277 Dewey Decimal Number: 818.54 EAN: 9780671865276 ASIN: 0671865277 Publication Date: October 8, 1993 Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days


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Editorial Reviews: Product Description Includes two of Crews' full-length novels, The Gypsy's Curse and Car, his autobiography, and three of his essays.

Customer Reviews: Showing reviews 1-5 of 11 1 2 3 Next » DELIRIOUSLY ABSURD AND DEPRAVED June 13, 2008 Nelson H. Wu (Virginia) 1 out of 1 found this review helpful In Harry Crews's disturbing and achingly funny novel "Car," Herman Mack sets out to eat a 1971 Ford Maverick from bumper to bumper (excluding the spare tire and jack). Herman soon becomes a small-town hero and everyone in his backwater Florida town wants a piece of the action. The ensuing racket reaches delirious heights of absurdity and depravity. When it was originally published in 1972, "Car" worked best as a biting commentary on our national obsession with the automobile. But today, Crews's novel can also be read as a prescient look at how anyone, anywhere can become an instant celebrity for doing something incredibly stupid. An otherwise undistinguished Herman sets out to eat that fine Ford because he "felt himself special, felt himself being saved by a force bigger than himself and outside himself, saved to do some fantastic and special thing." What modern-day millennial won't identify with that vague but compelling urge? If you aren't a movie star or a singer or a top model, at least you can star in your own reality TV show or sex tape. As you can probably imagine, Harry Crews is an acquired taste. And if you think "Car" is hard to stomach, try Crews's wacked-out memoir, "A Childhood: The Biography of a Place," also collected in the indispensable "Classic Crews." A Reason to Read July 25, 2006 J. Newberry (Tifton, GA) 2 out of 2 found this review helpful Harry Crews: the name and reputation often precede the writing. Many know of his youthful and not-so-youthful exploits. Many have seen the "How do you like your blue-eyed boy, Mr. Death" tattoo. Some may remember the mohawk on the Dennis Miller show. Doubtless, Harry Crews the man is a force of nature. In contrast, Harry Crews the writer is a man of unadorned style with a nearly minimalist approach to fiction. His tightly-constructed sentences move along with machine-like precision. His eye is attuned to the smallest of details. And in his hands, plot is an extension of character. The Harry Crews Reader is a reason to read this masterful southern writer. With grit and wit, Crews unfolds story after story of loser and scoundrel, from the unlikely tale of man who eats a car to the heart-breaking tale of Crews' own childhood. Crews depicts images that will scar the sense, tearing into a reader's subconscious and nestling there. I can't get the image of young Harry losing the skin off of his entire body after being accidentally immersed in a tub of scalding water. Harry Crews' stories are bizarre, true--but they often teach important lessons about consumerism and the dangers of being cut off from the land. Yes--I said "teaches lessons." Our culture has conditioned us to think that stories with a point are to be dismissed as "moralizing." Nothing could be further from the truth. Harry Crews shows us that fiction can matter, even fiction from a south Georgia hell raiser. Southern Fun January 11, 2006 O'Neil (Chicago, IL) As a Southerner- I felt I had to like this book until I read it and then really loved it!!! Crews' voice is so funny and sometimes,downright bizarre that you can't help but be taken in by it. You can read the stories in order or out of order- it doesn't matter. But I definitely recommend this book and if you are a true Southerner you have no excuse but to read this! beautiful and sad. October 17, 2005 Everett G. Hurst beautiful and sad. Harry Crews tell stories that grip hold and touch. An immense weight still weighs on me after having read this book. Honest and real. Its a Fat 4 stars at that. dude rocks! December 11, 2004 Bob Mackie! (left lobe, center brain) 2 out of 4 found this review helpful This dude rocks! He is funny and tragic, beautiful prose but a gritty easy read. i can't believe i went 23 years without ever hearing of him. Plus, he lives in Gainseville. 'Nuff said. Showing reviews 1-5 of 11 1 2 3 Next »

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