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Tobacco Road is a 1932 novel by Erskine Caldwell about a dysfunctional family of Georgia sharecroppers during the Great Depression. Although often portrayed as a work of social realism, the novel contains many elements of black comedy and sensationalism which made it a subject of controversy
- J. J. Kirkland, Erskine Preston Caldwell
- 1932
Erskine Preston Caldwell (December 17, 1903 – April 11, 1987) was an American novelist and short story writer. [7] [8] His writings about poverty, racism and social problems in his native Southern United States, in novels such as Tobacco Road (1932) and God's Little Acre (1933) won him critical acclaim.
608 reviews 102 followers. January 27, 2023. The tobacco road that passes by the rural Georgia home of Jeeter Lester and his family, in Erskine Caldwell’s 1932 novel Tobacco Road, may speak to the prosperous colonial history of tobacco farming.
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Erskine Caldwell has 274 books on Goodreads with 48423 ratings. Erskine Caldwell’s most popular book is Tobacco Road.
7 de abr. de 2024 · Erskine Caldwell was an American author whose unadorned novels and stories about the rural poor of the American South mix violence and sex in grotesque tragicomedy. His works achieved a worldwide readership and were particularly esteemed in France and the Soviet Union.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Sus novelas más conocidas son El camino del tabaco, publicada en 1932 y La parcela de Dios, de 1933. La primera trata sobre una familia pobre de terratenientes en la peor etapa de la Gran Depresión. Fue llevada a Broadway y se mantuvo sobre los escenarios durante ocho años. Cuenta, además, con una versión cinematográfica dirigida por John Ford.
Tobacco Road, novel by Erskine Caldwell, published in 1932. 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.
