Firsts: A Young Man's Journey Into the World of Women

by Thomas Rain Crowe

In FIRSTS, Thomas Rain Crowe writes in the long-standing German literary genre of the Bildungsroman (education through experience). In this linked-stories, coming-of-age book of autobiographical fiction, we see and hear echoes of great writers in this tradition, such as Goethe, Joyce, Novalis, Dickens and Thomas Mann. Crowe's "girls" are what has formed him, and we follow him from place to place, room to room in these sensitive and engaging love stories, all of which have an unusual and unique twist.

116 pages, Paperback

First published May 5, 2015

About the author

Thomas Raine Crowe is an American poet and translator. He is Associate Editor of Asheville Poetry Review and the New Native Press in North Carolina.