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Where Does One Go When There's No Place Left to Go?
First SIGNED LIMITED Edition. 1/400 numbered copies. Fine in dj. Features Ralph Steadman's cover art. The sequel to "The Gospel Singer." SIGNED BY HARRY CREWS
105 pages, Hardcover
First published April 1, 1998
About the author
Harry Crews
46 books709 followersHarry Eugene Crews was born during the Great Depression to sharecroppers in Bacon County, Georgia. His father died when he was an infant and his mother quickly remarried. His mother later moved her sons to Jacksonville, Florida. Crews is twice divorced and is the father of two sons. His eldest son drowned in 1964.
Crews served in the Korean War and, following the war, enrolled at the University of Florida under the G.I. Bill. After two years of school, Crews set out on an extended road trip. He returned to the University of Florida in 1958. Later, after graduating from the master's program, Crews was denied entrance to the graduate program for Creative Writing. He moved to Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, where he taught English at Broward Community College. In 1968, Crews' first novel, The Gospel Singer, was published. Crews returned to the University of Florida as an English faculty member.
In spring of 1997, Crews retired from UF to devote himself fully to writing. Crews published continuously since his first novel, on average of one novel per year. He died in 2012, at the age of 78.
Crews served in the Korean War and, following the war, enrolled at the University of Florida under the G.I. Bill. After two years of school, Crews set out on an extended road trip. He returned to the University of Florida in 1958. Later, after graduating from the master's program, Crews was denied entrance to the graduate program for Creative Writing. He moved to Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, where he taught English at Broward Community College. In 1968, Crews' first novel, The Gospel Singer, was published. Crews returned to the University of Florida as an English faculty member.
In spring of 1997, Crews retired from UF to devote himself fully to writing. Crews published continuously since his first novel, on average of one novel per year. He died in 2012, at the age of 78.
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June 14, 2016
We’re getting the band back together! (The results are as unspectacular as that bad idea usually is.)
I had to read this one, as it collects characters from most of the novels written during Crews’ run of varying greatness, the focus of my mini project. The deficit is, of course, that is was written 20-years after Crews had pretty much pumped his derrick dry. It was enjoyable as an exercise is completing a project, and its main appeal is undoubtedly that only a few hundred copies were ever printed and all come signed and numbered. The concomitant price tag—and the fact that new old stock copies are still available from the original publisher/bookstore—undoubtedly says volumes about its reputation within Crews’ own oeuvre (plus the fact that me of all people is the FIRST to give it a proper review in the, uh-hum, august history of Goodreads).
Crews attempts—to uncertain degrees of success—to manipulate his fictive ‘selves’ (and be manipulated in turn) as a metaphor for the actual writing process. We are to accept his proposal that all of his characters embody some aspect of his actual real-life self. Okay, got it. As my opprobrium towards The Gypsy’s Curse was enough, I will say only that its short length is a virtue. As with too much Harry, insubstantiality is unsuccessfully obscured by the fireworks of easy dazzle. Bringing these characters together never amounts to more than the sum of parts; sad as a few were multi-dimensional characters in their original iterations. Within, they are rendered as sketches to support a proposition that is shaky to begin with.
In all fairness, meta-Crews is not what I want from the author, but 30-years into a career of diminishing returns he has more than earned the right to do whatever the fuck he wants. Maybe he really was exorcising ghosts. Who’s to say? Dead men tell no tales (so sez Lemmy), and this dead man told the last I have any interest in with Where Does One Go….
I had to read this one, as it collects characters from most of the novels written during Crews’ run of varying greatness, the focus of my mini project. The deficit is, of course, that is was written 20-years after Crews had pretty much pumped his derrick dry. It was enjoyable as an exercise is completing a project, and its main appeal is undoubtedly that only a few hundred copies were ever printed and all come signed and numbered. The concomitant price tag—and the fact that new old stock copies are still available from the original publisher/bookstore—undoubtedly says volumes about its reputation within Crews’ own oeuvre (plus the fact that me of all people is the FIRST to give it a proper review in the, uh-hum, august history of Goodreads).
Crews attempts—to uncertain degrees of success—to manipulate his fictive ‘selves’ (and be manipulated in turn) as a metaphor for the actual writing process. We are to accept his proposal that all of his characters embody some aspect of his actual real-life self. Okay, got it. As my opprobrium towards The Gypsy’s Curse was enough, I will say only that its short length is a virtue. As with too much Harry, insubstantiality is unsuccessfully obscured by the fireworks of easy dazzle. Bringing these characters together never amounts to more than the sum of parts; sad as a few were multi-dimensional characters in their original iterations. Within, they are rendered as sketches to support a proposition that is shaky to begin with.
In all fairness, meta-Crews is not what I want from the author, but 30-years into a career of diminishing returns he has more than earned the right to do whatever the fuck he wants. Maybe he really was exorcising ghosts. Who’s to say? Dead men tell no tales (so sez Lemmy), and this dead man told the last I have any interest in with Where Does One Go….
March 3, 2025
i thought it was fun lol
July 17, 2026
"All things come full circle," Duffy said. "No up or down, no left or right just all part of the same line that runs through your mouth and my mouth, through all mouths and all things."
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