Tobacco Road (Revised)

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ISBN-10: 082031661X
ISBN-13: 9780820316611
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Publish Date: 02/01/1995
Dimensions: 8.52" L, 5.53" W, 0.49" H

Tobacco Road (Revised)

byErskine Caldwell

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Price: $21.95

Overview

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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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
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Details

ISBN-10: 082031661X
ISBN-13: 9780820316611
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Publish Date: 02/01/1995
Dimensions: 8.52" L, 5.53" W, 0.49" H
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