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Tobacco Road

A Novel

Erskine Caldwell author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:University of Georgia Press

Published:1st Feb '95

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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.

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


Caldwell displays a talent which is unique.


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

ISBN: 9780820316611

Dimensions: 216mm x 140mm x 12mm

Weight: 231g

192 pages