Tobacco Road (Brown Thrasher Books)

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1994
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Set during the Depression in the depleted farmlands surrounding Augusta, Georgia, Tobacco Road was first published in 1932. It is the story of the Lesters, a family of white sharecroppers so destitute that most of their creditors have given up on them. Debased by poverty to an elemental state of ignorance and selfishness, the Lesters are preoccupied by their hunger, sexual longings, and fear that they will someday descend to a lower rung on the social ladder than the black families who live near them.

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Set during the Depression in the depleted farmlands surrounding Augusta, Georgia, "Tobacco Road" was first published in 1932. It is the story of the Lesters, a family of white sharecroppers so destitute that most of their creditors have given up on them. Debased by poverty to an elemental state of ignorance and selfishness, the Lesters are preoccupied by their hunger, sexual longings, and fear that they will someday descend to a lower rung on the social ladder than the black families who live near them.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 200
Edition: Revised ed.
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 30 Sep 1994
ISBN 10: 082031661X
ISBN 13: 9780820316611

Media Reviews

Mr. Caldwell's humor, like Mark Twain's, has as its source an imagination that stirs the emotions of the reader.

--New York Herald Tribune

An original, mature approach to people who ignore the civilization that contains them as completely as it ignores them.

--The Nation

Caldwell displays a talent which is unique.

--New York Times

Author Bio

Erskine Caldwell (1903-1987) was born in Newnan, Georgia. He became one of America's most widely read, prolific, and critically debated writers, with a literary output of more than sixty titles. At the time of his death, Caldwell's books had sold eighty million copies worldwide in more than forty languages. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1984.