Tobacco Road
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780451121561 (0451121562)
Publish date: February 1st 1947
Publisher: Signet
Edition language: English
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...
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...
In 1998, the Modern Library released a list of the 100 Best American Novels to much acclaim and much derision. Randian poltroons and sci-fi nerds and feminists and African-Americans and librarians and English majors and everyone but my mom whipped up a complaint about the list’s validity, but I was ...