num_pages: 171
description: Born the son of a Georgia sharecropper and raised during the Depression, Crews recreates the world of his youth with tales of his friends and relatives, some amusing, some violent and tragic
language: English
title: A Childhood: the Biography of a Place
titlecomplete: A Childhood: the Biography of a Place
genres: Southern Gothic, Biography, Southern, Autobiography, History, The United States Of America, Nonfiction, Biography Memoir, Literature, Memoir
ratings_count: 2194
publisher: Harper & Row