Tobacco Road
by Erskine Caldwell
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Pub Date Jun 21 2011 | Archive Date Sep 01 2012
Description
Caldwell’s
bestselling, controversial classic: the story of a Southern
sharecropper family ground down by the devastation of the Great
Depression
Even before the Great Depression
struck, Jeeter Lester and his family were desperately poor
sharecroppers. But when hard times begin to affect the families that
once helped support them, the Lesters slip completely into the abyss.
Rather than hold on to each other for support, Jeeter, his wife Ada, and
their twelve children are overcome by the fractured and violent society
around them.
Banned and burned when first released in 1932, Tobacco Road is a brutal examination of poverty’s dehumanizing influence by one of America’s great masters of political fiction.
This
ebook features an illustrated biography of Erskine Caldwell including
rare photos and never-before-seen documents courtesy of the Dartmouth
College Library.
Erskine Caldwell
(1903–1987) is the author of twenty-five novels, numerous short
stories, and a dozen nonfiction titles, most depicting the harsh
realities of life in the American South during the Great Depression. His
books have been published in forty-five languages and have sold tens of
millions of copies, with God’s Little Acre alone selling more
than fourteen million. Caldwell’s graphic realism and unabashedly
political themes earned him the scorn of critics and censors early in
his career, though by the end of his life he was acknowledged as a giant
of American literature.
Advance Praise
"An original, mature approach to the people who ignore the civilization that contains them as completely as it ignores them."-The Nation
"[A] story of force and beauty."-New York Post
"An original, mature approach to the people who ignore the civilization that contains them as completely as it ignores them."-The Nation "[A] story of force and beauty."-New York Post
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