This Thing Don't Lead To Heaven
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This Thing Don't Lead To Heaven
ISBN not provided · 1970
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New York: William Morrow & Company, 1970. First edition. Hardcover, 186pp., 8.5 x 6 inches. Very Good. Mild rubbing and toning to price clipped dust jacket, with 1" tear to rear upper edge of jacket near authors name. Gentle yellowing to interior. The third novel by Crews, set in a home for the elderly run by an enormous woman with a dwarf masseur named Jefferson Davis, and details the arrival of the Spanish speaking Carlita, who no one can understand. The book offers Crews' views on aging, loneliness, and the human condition. "This Thing Don't Lead to Heaven" is an essential mid-period work from a man now considered a master of Southern Gothic literature.
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