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In Crum, a gritty coal town on the West Virginia-Kentucky border, the boys fight, swear, chase and sometimes catch girls. The adults are cramped in and clueless, hemmed in by the mountains. The weight of wonder, dejection, and even possibility loom over this tiny, suffocating town. This story is the tale of Jesse Stone, who doesn't know where he's going, but knows he is leaving, and whose rebellion against the people and the place of his childhood allows him to reject the comfort and familiarity of his home in search of his place in a larger world.
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""Each time I read Lee Maynard’s "Crum", I ask myself why this foul-mouthed, sexist, scatological, hillbilly-stereotyping novel is one of my all-time favorites."" Meredith Sue Willis, author "Oradell at Sea"
"[Maynard] writes like Jean Shepherd on aic..." Robert Beveridge, "Critic"
"Maynard is a Gonzo Mountaineer..." Pops Walker, musician and writer
""Crum" is great. Lee Maynard is a genius. No writing has captured rural America this well since Mark Twain. A masterpiece." Stephen Coonts, author "Flight of the Intruder"
"Whatever you do, don't read "Crum"." Jack Cawthon, "Hur Herald"
"Each time I read Lee Maynard's "Crum", I ask myself why this foul-mouthed, sexist, scatological, hillbilly-stereotyping novel is one of my all-time favorites." Meredith Sue Willis, author "Oradell at Sea"
"Maynard is a Gonzo Mountaineer..." Pops Walker, musician and writer
"Crum is great. Lee Maynard is a genius. No writing has captured rural America this well since Mark Twain. A masterpiece." Stephen Coonts, author "Flight of the Intruder"
"Whatever you do, don't read Crum." Jack Cawthon, "Hur Herald"
"For all its faults, "Crum" creates a hilarious, poignant, recognizable picture of a place and time, and of people I've known." Rodger Cunningham, "Journal of Appalachian Studies"
Lee Maynard was born and raised in the hardscrabble ridges and hard-packed mountains of West Virginia, USA an upbringing that darkens and shapes much of his writing. His work has appeared in such publications such as Columbia Review of Literature, Appalachian Heritage, Kestrel, Reader's Digest, The Saturday Review, Rider Magazine, Washington Post, Country America, and The Christian Science Monitor. Maynard gained public and literary attention for his depiction of adolescent life in a rural mining town in his first novel, Crum, and received a Literary Fellowship in Fiction from the National Endowment for the Arts to complete its sequel, Screaming with the Cannibals.
An avid outdoorsman and conservationist, Maynard is a mountaineer, sea kayaker, skier, and former professional river runner. Currently, Maynard serves as President and CEO of The Storehouse, an independently funded, nonprofit food pantry in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He received the 2008 Turquoise Chalice Award to honor his dedication to this organization.
An avid outdoorsman and conservationist, Maynard is a mountaineer, sea kayaker, skier, and former professional river runner. Currently, Maynard serves as President and CEO of The Storehouse, an independently funded, nonprofit food pantry in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He received the 2008 Turquoise Chalice Award to honor his dedication to this organization.
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- PublisherCorgi
- Publication date1989
- ISBN 10 0552993573
- ISBN 13 9780552993579
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages192
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