(Novel Revelry),Autobiography: A childhood,the biography of Place, Harry Crews

Please read: This is novel revelry---- However, this meetup will be reading an autobiography (for a change). Let's read the autobiography of Harry Crews' (an American author) first 6 years and get together to discuss it. 192 pages.
If reading biographies are not your choice, then please do not sign up.
This is in AADL. If not, you can request it from MelCat.

I discovered his name listening to a podcast of author Tobias Wolff who is well known for "This Boy's Life" which was made into a movie with a very young Leonardo DiCaprio.

from amazon:

The highly acclaimed memoir of one of the most original American storytellers of the rural South

A Penguin Classic

Harry Crews grew up as the son of a sharecropper in Georgia at a time when “the rest of the country was just beginning to feel the real hurt of the Great Depression but it had been living in Bacon County for years.” Yet what he conveys in this moving, brutal autobiography of his first six years of life is an elegiac sense of community and roots from a rural South that had rarely been represented in this way. Interweaving his own memories including his bout with polio and a fascination with the Sears, Roebuck catalog, with the tales of relatives and friends, he re-creates a childhood of tenderness and violence, comedy and tragedy.