Quite obviously, Naked in Garden Hills reflects the varied and longstanding literary fascination with man's origins, nature, and ends. Crews, looking at these issues through the dust of contemporary industrialization, sees only humans surviving on their own resources in a world of shifting values.
The realistic social and economic detail in which Crews pictures that world recalls the dystopian social views of such Industrial Age writers as Emile Zola, Upton Sinclair, Theodore Dreiser, and Frank.....
