Lewis Nordan
Birth date: August 23, 1939
Died: April 13, 2012
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At times, the author’s language is like poetry. At other times, he enters so intimately into the mind of a violent racist the story becomes repellent. Sometimes there seems to be a plot and a sense of direction. At other times, there doesn’t. In only one scene did the author write with what came a...
I finished this a few days ago, but can't decide what I think. It was very well written, but maybe a little too cartoonish for me, for the seriousness of the subject. Although I'm not sure if there would have been another way to approach it that would have been readable.
Erskine Caldwell was the son of a Presbyterian minister. It seems his Caldwell ancestors hailed from an area where one of my Caldwell ancestors came from, although the two families appear to have been unrelated. As a good Presyberian, Erskine Caldwell couldn't help moralizing about personal responsi...
Though entertaining at times, and though Nordan has a gift for the unusual and the beautifully macabre - a must for the South it seems - the collection never added up. The stories in the first half centered on Sugar Mecklin and they all tread on each other's toes. Each story must have been published...
home audio- John MacDonald, Narrator- Unabridged- 4 tapes = 5 Hrs 17 Mins- Blackstone Audio Books- 1995Blurb -Tobacco Road is set in Augusta, Georgia during the worst years of the Great Depression. It depicts a family of poor white tenant farmers, the Lesters, as one of the many small Southern cotto...
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