Collected here is the best of Harry Crews: his astoundingly beautiful memoir "A Childhood: The Biography of a Place; " two of his most memorable novels, "Car" and "The Gypsy's Curse; " and three masterly essays, "Climbing the Tower, " "The Car, " and "Fathers, Sons and Blood, " as well as a new intr[...]
Children must learn to act appropriately, in ways that differ from society to society and from context to context. The question of how best to socialize children so that they can function successfully is a large and crucial question that has fascinated educators and psychologists for centuries. In a[...]
Determined to win Soaps for Life's annual sales contest, Hickum Looney is thrilled when he finds the perfect customer in a little old lady, but he still has to contend with the Boss, who outsells his salesmen every year. Reprint. 15,000 first printing. NYT. K.[...]
A small Georgia town, filled with a curious assortment of losers, anticipates the promise of bizarre new possibilities with the upcoming rattlesnake hunt[...]
1975. Mystic, Georgia. Det börjar dra ihop sig för den årliga orminsamlingen. Joe Lon Mackey, en gång firad high- school stjärna i amerikansk fotboll, väntar motvilligt in anstormningen av ormjägare som snart kommer att fylla hans lilla trailercamping. Hans tillvaro består numera mest av att[...]