Harry Crews

• Apr-1972
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• Aug-1976
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It's not anybody who could write a bawdy, often hilarious, totally unsentimental novel about a legless deaf-mute who earns his keep by doing one-finger stands on arms the size of your average giant's thighs. Marvin Molar lives in a gym with Al -- a f...

• Jun-1982
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""Fourteen essays and articles and three short stories that will hit you right between the eyes. Crews writing is informed by a deep love of language, literature, nature, blood sports, and his own kind of people--namely rural, southern, hard-drin...

• Aug-1983
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• Apr-1988
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Chronicles the story of Duffy Deeter, a Florida lawyer obsessed with fitness and images of death; his wife Tish, a platinum blond having an affair with his law partner, and Duffy's girlfriend Marvella, a coke-snorting nymphet...

• Apr-1988
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Profiles of Charles Bronson and Robert Blake, descriptions of Appalachian hillbillies, and an account of life with a traveling carnival are among the nonfiction selections which, taken collectively, provide insight into Harry Crews the man...

• Apr-1988
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Sex and Salvation He had two priceless assets. Both were God-given. One was his voice. From coast to coast it held millions of TV viewers spellbound, hearing the gospel songs of Southland as they never had been sung before. The other was his...

• Apr-1988
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Crews’s novel about a boxer with the gift of knocking himself unconscious, with a new foreword by New York Times-bestselling author S. A. Cosby A Penguin ClassicA favorite of longtime Harry Crews fans, The Knockout Artist (1988) portrays Eugene Ta...

• Sep-1990
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Shereel Dupont--who abandoned her former name, Dorothy Turnipseed, when she left Waycross, Georgia, to seek fame and fortune with bodybuilder Russell Morgan--finds her new life threatened by the arrival of her corpulent, redneck family...

• Feb-1992
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Scar Lover is a miraculous, true-to-the-bone story of love and redemption, at once a classic southern novel and purely, unmistakably, Harry Crews.

Running from a past that has scarred and blamed him, and a tragic accident that has destroyed his fam...

• Nov-1993
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"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...

• Nov-1995
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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 printin...

• Jan-1998
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Now from the author the Washington Post Book World calls "the dark chronicler of human vanity and folly" comes Celebration. The newest black comedy from Harry Crews is a biting, brilliant commentary set in a Florida rest-home gulag where the over-six...

• Jan-1998
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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 Myst...

• Jun-2006
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