The Gospel Singer

by Harry Crews

Book Overview

"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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0143135090
• ISBN13: 9780143135098
• Release Date: March 2022
• Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.0" x 7.6"

Customer Reviews

Oh, give me MORE!!!

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..

A surrealistic pillow of hot, heavy air...

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.