Tobacco road
By: Erskine Caldwell ; foreword by Lewis Nordan.
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Athens
Language: eng
Number of pages: 184
Subjects: Sharecroppers -- Fiction.; Tobacco farmers -- Fiction.; Rural poor -- Fiction.; Farm life -- Fiction.; Georgia -- Fiction.
Description: A tale of violence and sex among rural poor in the American South, the novel was highly controversial in its time. It is the story of Georgia sharecropper Jeeter Lester and his family, who are trapped by the bleak economic conditions of the Depression as well as by their own limited intelligence and destructive sexuality. Its tragic ending is almost foreordained by the characters' inability to change their lives. Caldwell's skillful use of dialect and his plain style made the book one of the best examples of literary naturalism in contemporary American fiction. The novel was adapted as a successful play in 1933.
Notes: "Brown Thrasher Books."