Tobacco Road
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...
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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
ISBN:
9780820316611 (082031661X)
Publish date: February 1st 1995
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Pages no: 192
Edition language: English
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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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