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First published in the United States of America by Harper & Row Publishers 1978
Published with a foreword by Tobias Wolff in Penguin Books 2022
Copyright © 1978 by The Estate of Harry Crews
Foreword copyright © 2022 by Tobias Wolff
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library of congress cataloging-in-publication data
Names: Crews, Harry, 1935–2012, author. | Wolff, Tobias, 1945– writer of foreword.
Title: A childhood : the biography of a place / Harry Crews ; foreword by Tobias Wolff.
Description: First edition. | New York : Penguin Books 2022. | Series: Penguin classics
Identifiers: LCCN 2021029407 (print) | LCCN 2021029408 (ebook) | ISBN 9780143135333 (paperback) | ISBN 9780525506768 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Crews, Harry, 1935–2012—Childhood and youth. | Novelists,
American—20th century—Biography. | Bacon County (Ga.)—Biography. |
LCGFT: Autobiographies.
Classification: LCC PS3553.R46 Z46 2022 (print) | LCC PS3553.R46 (ebook) | DDC 813/.54 [B]—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021029407
LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021029408
Cover photograph: Jason Fulford
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