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  <title><![CDATA[Classic Crews: A Harry Crews Reader]]></title>
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  <default_description>Includes two of Crews' full-length novels, The Gypsy's Curse and Car, his autobiography, and three of his essays.</default_description>
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  <original_publication_day type="integer">8</original_publication_day>
  <original_publication_month type="integer">10</original_publication_month>
  <original_publication_year type="integer">1993</original_publication_year>
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      <name><![CDATA[Harry Crews]]></name>
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    <name><![CDATA[Wade]]></name>
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  <read_at>Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1997</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Aug 02 15:31:12 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Aug 02 15:42:13 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Crews does redneck freaks like a more modern Flannery O'Connor without being informed by Catholicism.  He also cusses a lot more. Really this should be broken up into a number of reviews, but I'm too lazy for that.  Car is perhaps my favorite Crews book, which is enough for this collection to be wor...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3988254">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="54174340">
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    <name><![CDATA[Alyson]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[New Orleans, LA]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Fri May 01 15:33:33 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Fri May 01 15:33:33 -0700 2009</date_updated>
  <read_count>3 in parts, less or more for others</read_count>
    <body><![CDATA[This was a re-read of a collection of a small portion of Harry Crews' work.<br/><br/>Crews writes clearly and honestly about the darkest of lives, and the tales he tells may not be beautiful, but they ring true.  They make for some good reading, too, be you from the South, the Deep South, or Somep...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54174340">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="17654933">
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    <name><![CDATA[Will]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Houston, TX]]></location>        
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      <rating>4</rating>
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  <date_added>Thu Mar 13 04:26:33 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Mar 13 04:31:47 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is worth the read just for &quot;Childhood: Biography of a Place.&quot;  Crews had one of the weirdest and most difficult childhoods of anyone who's ever admitted to it, so far as I can tell, and his memoir is pretty startling.  <br/><br/>&quot;The Gypsy's Curse&quot; is my least favorit...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17654933">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="25694394">
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    <name><![CDATA[Debra]]></name>
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      <rating>5</rating>
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  <read_at>Mon Jul 07 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Jun 27 14:27:30 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Jul 15 12:10:02 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is an excellent read from an undervalued, talented author. His work is as forceful as his personality. Crews rights about the poor rural folks of Georgia in his exceptional stories. The first story in this collection is autobiographical and tells the story of the suthor's very humble childhood ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/25694394">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="39476296">
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    <name><![CDATA[Pat]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Oakland, CA]]></location>        
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      <rating>4</rating>
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  <date_added>Sat Dec 06 17:32:13 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Dec 06 17:34:23 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[The memoir, A Childhood, is the best part of this collection from tough-guy writer Harry Crews. And the essay at the end isn't bad either. I hope he was telling it true, but even if he wasn't, it was a fine read. ]]></body>
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    <review id="38539339">
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    <name><![CDATA[Heather]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[The United States]]></location>        
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      <rating>4</rating>
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  <date_added>Mon Nov 24 10:52:28 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Nov 24 10:53:25 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[My favorite is &quot;The Gypsy's Curse.&quot; I wrote a song about it long ago. I had just returned from a trip around the south and the swamplands haunted me.]]></body>
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    <review id="70545211">
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      <rating>5</rating>
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  <read_at>Tue Sep 15 18:20:15 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Sep 08 19:43:19 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Sep 15 18:20:15 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;How do you like your blue-eyed boy, Mr. Death?&quot; <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.examiner.com/examiner/x-8359-Denver-Books-Examiner~y2009m9d12-The-man-who-tried-to-eat-a-car" title="http://www.examiner.com/examiner/x-8359-Denver-Books-Examiner~y2009m9d12-The-man-who-tried-to-eat-a-car">http://www.examiner.com/examiner/x-8359-...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="60961160">
    <user id="787572">
    <name><![CDATA[Kate]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Denton, TX]]></location>        
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      <rating>5</rating>
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  <read_at>Fri May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Jun 24 13:34:53 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Jun 24 13:36:05 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a great collection of Crews and much recommended.]]></body>
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    <review id="6629119">
    <user id="406535">
    <name><![CDATA[Adam]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Brooklyn, NY]]></location>        
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      <rating>4</rating>
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  <read_at>Fri Jan 25 13:25:03 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Sep 22 20:15:11 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Sep 22 20:15:11 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Harry Crews is a great writer generally, but I really love the first part of this collection - its a memoir of his growing up a sharecropper kid in Bacon County, Georgia. Some of his other stories get a bit fantastical for me (like &quot;The Car&quot;) but I would very much recommend Crews to those ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6629119">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="30735578">
    <user id="526331">
    <name><![CDATA[Richard]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Fair Lawn, NJ]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1994</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Aug 20 19:18:51 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Aug 20 19:21:34 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Padgett Powell once said that <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/search/search?q= Three By Flannery O'Connor" title=" Three By Flannery O'Connor"> Three By Flannery O'Connor</a> was &quot;pound-for-pound the finest value in literature.&quot;  This tome runs a close second--Crews' autobiography, which is perhaps his finest book and one of the finest accounts of southern storytelling ever, some of his best essays and t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30735578">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="12081146">
    <user id="413834">
    <name><![CDATA[Becky]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[The United States]]></location>        
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      <rating>5</rating>
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  <read_at>Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Jan 09 12:25:58 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Jan 09 12:33:48 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[You get three books in one, and I think they're all great. Childhood is about growing up dirt poor in the backwoods of Georgia with only a sears catalog to read. The Gypsie's Curse is the tale of the woes of a legless body builder. Car is just insane. Read this and you will not be sorry]]></body>
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    <review id="22104999">
    <user id="1157493">
    <name><![CDATA[Kath]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Buffalo, NY]]></location>        
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      <rating>4</rating>
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  <read_at>Fri Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon May 12 17:13:30 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon May 12 17:14:56 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Really like his voice and his memoir/essays -- would have rated this a five if it wasn't for one story that was well told but whose characters I couldn't really get into.  Amazingly clear southern voice.]]></body>
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    <review id="18758257">
    <user id="810255">
    <name><![CDATA[Donal]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Portland, OR]]></location>        
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      <rating>4</rating>
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  <date_added>Thu Mar 27 09:19:11 -0700 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[The most compassionate of all his writing, certainly the most tender. This book has much of the dreamy ache of Member the Wedding, but keeps that clean, hardcore Crew's voice.]]></body>
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    <review id="25520487">
    <user id="350659">
    <name><![CDATA[Michael]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Redondo Beach, CA]]></location>        
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    <body><![CDATA[The &quot;fathers and sons&quot; essay is powerful and honest with full abandon. HC is too terrible to hit the mainstream, but damn. Good job man.]]></body>
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    <review id="12626366">
    <user id="788026">
    <name><![CDATA[Eric]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[The United States]]></location>        
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      <rating>5</rating>
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  <read_at>Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1997</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a must-read collection by one of our most unique southern authors. Rough, brutal, tender, expansive, empathetic, hysterical and macabre.]]></body>
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    <review id="26675082">
    <user id="921494">
    <name><![CDATA[Robin]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[High Point, NC]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Tue Jul 22 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Tue Jul 22 05:35:30 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[The first part of the book would rate 5 stars, but the other stories made it drop by one star, though still great.]]></body>
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    <review id="16640778">
    <user id="952940">
    <name><![CDATA[Chris]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Denver, CO]]></location>        
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  <date_added>Thu Feb 28 15:46:51 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Jun 15 15:05:44 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[All the asshole Michael Vick haters should have to read this book- the south is not boston or new york assholes]]></body>
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    <review id="6581046">
    <user id="88825">
    <name><![CDATA[Christine]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Nashville, TN]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I love him.  So good.  A writer of hilarious and dark novels and an extremely gifted essayist.]]></body>
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    <review id="20469865">
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