Excerpt from A Childhood: The Biography of a Place.

Excerpt from A Childhood: The Biography of a Place.

Excerpt from A Childhood: The Biography of a Place.

Collection of contemporary non-fiction, including works by James Baldwin, Russell Baker, Frank Conroy, Cynthia Ozick, Reynolds Price, and, of Crews's, an excerpt from A Childhood: The Biography of a Place.

Reprints the essay, "The Car," first published in Esquire (December 1975).

Excerpt from Chapter 9 of A Childhood: The Biography of a Place.

Reprints Crews's essay "On Food" first published in Antaeus (1992).

Reprints "The Car" from Esquire (December 1975). Also includes work by Frederick Barthelme, Tom Wolfe, Russell Banks, Jack Kerouac, Tim Cahill, and William Saroyan.

Reprint of Crews's February 1975 essay "Going Down in Valdeez" in Playboy (also in Blood & Grits).

Excerpt titled "Eating Possum" from A Childhood: The Biography of a Place.

Illustrated.

This college-reader reprints Crews's essay "Pages from the Life of a Georgia Innocent" originally published in Esquire (July 1976).

Excerpt from A Childhood: The Biography of a Place.

Excerpt from A Childhood: The Biography of a Place.

Keyes has compiled numerous excerpts on the theme of father-son relations. Crews's excerpt comes from A Childhood: The Biography of a Place, the sleepwalking incident. Other contributors include, Joe David Bellamy [see Bellamy (1976) Interviews], James Dickey, Raymond Carver, John Cheever, Pete Hamill.

Reprints the essay "Tuesday Night with Cody, Jimbo, and a Fish of Some Proportion," first published in Esquire [87.2 (February 1977)].

Excerpt from A Childhood: The Biography of a Place titled "A Long Wail."

First published in The Georgia Review (Summer 1964).

Excerpt from A Childhood: The Biography of a Place.

This anthology of "reminiscences of American childhoods," excerpts Chapter 4, the much-quoted passages in which Crews describes his childhood fascination with the Sears, Roebuck catalog.

Crews's essay "Why I live Where I Live" was originally printed in Esquire [(September 1980): 46-47] and later in Florida Frenzy.

Reprints "Madonna at Ringside." The table of contents lists the original publication source as: "At Ringside with Madonna and Sean" St. Petersburg Times (January 21, 1989).

Crews's essay "Poaching Gators for Fun and Profit" first appeared in Esquire (April 1977).

Introducing the excerpt from A Childhood: The Biography of a Place, Parini writes, "In that brilliant and funny book, [Crews] recalls his first six years as the family moved from farm to farm in Bacon County, an impoverished place that was nevertheless rich in anecdote."

Excerpt from A Childhood.

Excerpt from A Childhood: The Biography of a Place includes brief author bio and introduction.

"Crews's most lasting contribution to southern literature may well be A Childhood, in which he describes the often violent and grotesque, yet paradoxiacally beautiful world of rural Bacon county."