Gospel Singer [Paperback]

Harry Crews (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 300 pages
• Publisher: Gorse Publications (September 11, 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 189900601X
• ISBN-13: 978-1899006014
• Product Dimensions: 7.6 x 4.9 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #305,999 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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15 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A surrealistic pillow of hot, heavy air..., January 14, 1999

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Samantha Schulz, or [e-mail] (Nashville, Tennessee) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Gospel Singer: A Novel (Paperback)

When it comes to sex-God-and-violence books, Harry Crews is one of the best contemporary southern gothic novelists that's still pumping out good books.

And after all, this is his first novel. No pretension, no inarticulate naivete, just a gradually and very-well developed plot that reminded me at times of book four of Vergil's Aeneid.

Perhaps the most intriguing element of the book was the complete lack of introduction; Crews assumes from the origin that you'll have a good idea what he's talking about (and enjoy it more) if he simply begins not with alot of character-developing tedium but rather launches into a self-explanatory dialogue that makes everything all the more real, dialectical spellings and all. Although Crews seems to "carve 'suk for honesty' on [his] chest," the entire atmosphere of the seting, Enigma, Georgia, is exaggerated to a squalid surreality of a seemingly ordinary impoverished deep-South town. Crews' sparse yet vibrant depictions of southern life ensure decades prior that, well, he's not gonna stop writing anytime soon.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Oh, give me MORE!!!, February 18, 2007

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Sonja M. Elliott "Sonja E" (Panama City Beach, Fl) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Gospel Singer (Paperback)

A wonderful read....

I could see the charaters in this novel..and smell the sells, be they ever so foul..

A better southern writer..??..Not in my generation...

He is the master of southern dirt roots..

He has lived it, breathed it, and lived totell the tales..

That, in itself, is a miracle..

Loved it and all of the rest of his works..