The Gospel Singer by Harry Crews · Audiobook preview

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The Gospel Singer
Authored by Harry Crews
Narrated by Matt Godfrey

0:00 Intro
0:03 The Gospel Singer
0:18 Foreword: “God’s Greatest Gift to Man”: Harry Crews’s THE GOSPEL SINGER
7:46 Chapter 1
10:18 Outro

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BOOK DESCRIPTION

“Harry Crews is magnificently twisted and brutally funny.” – Carl Hiaasen

A Penguin Classic


Golden–haired, with the voice of an angel and a reputation as a healer, the Gospel Singer appeared on the cover of LIFE and brought thousands to their knees in Carnegie Hall. But for all his fame, he is a man in mortal torment that drives him back to his obscure and wretched hometown of Enigma, Georgia. But by the time his Cadillac pulls into Enigma, he discovers an old friend is being held at tenuous bay from a lynch mob. As Harry Crews’s first novel unfolds, the Gospel Singer is forced to give way to his torment, and in doing so he reveals to the believers who have gathered at his feet just how little he is God’s man, and how much he has contributed to the corruption of each of them.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Harry Crews was born in 1935 at the end of a dirt road in Alma, Bacon County, Georgia, a rural community near the Okefenokee Swamp. His father, a tenant farmer, died before Harry was two years old. A mysterious childhood paralysis; a horrible scalding accident; his mother’s second, turbulent marriage and divorce from a drunken uncle whom Crews had been led to believe was his natural father; and a move to Jacksonville, Florida, for his mother to find factory work were experiences that would feed his desire to imagine and, ultimately, to write. As a teen, Crews served a tour in the Marine Corps. On the GI Bill, Crews attended the University of Florida, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in literature followed by a master’s in education, with which he taught high–school and junior–college English. A protégé of Southern novelist Andrew Lytle, Crews published his first short story in the Sewanee Review in 1962. He published his first novel, The Gospel Singer, in 1968. Its publication…

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AUDIOBOOK DETAILS

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Language: English
Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio
Published on: March 15, 2022
ISBN: 9780593557990
Duration: 8 hr, 26 min
Genres: Fiction / Classics, Fiction / Gothic, Fiction / Literary