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Tobacco Road
A Novel
Häftad, 1995
337 kr
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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 …
Erskine Caldwell
Selected Letters, 1929-1955
Häftad, 2013
396 kr
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"I'm just an ordinary writer," Erskine Caldwell once wrote. "I'm not trying to sell anything; I'm not trying to buy anything. I'm just trying to present my vision of life." Yet his vision of Southern grotesques, of slack-jawed, pellagra-ridden sharecroppers, repressed farmwives, and oversexed …
God's Little Acre
A Novel
Häftad, 1995
335 kr
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Like Tobacco Road, this novel chronicles the final decline of a poor white family in rural Georgia. Exhorted by their patriarch Ty Ty, the Waldens ruin their land by digging it up in search of gold. Complex sexual entanglements and betrayals lead to a murder within the family that completes its …
You Have Seen Their Faces
Häftad, 1995
479 kr
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In the middle years of the Great Depression, Erskine Caldwell and photographer Margaret Bourke-White spent eighteen months traveling across the back roads of the Deep South—from South Carolina to Arkansas—to document the living conditions of the sharecropper. Their collaboration resulted in You …
Stories of Erskine Caldwell
Häftad, 1996
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491 kr
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This collection of ninety-six stories was first published in 1953 and presents the best of Erskine Caldwell's short fiction from his most productive period of work. Included is "Crown-Fire," which James Dickey praised as "the best story in the language," and such personal favorites of Caldwell as …
Georgia Boy
Häftad, 1995
465 kr
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In this appealing collection of fourteen interrelated stories, twelve-year-old William Stroup recounts the ludicrous predicaments and often self-imposed hardships his family endures. Playing on the tension between Martha, his hardworking, sensible mother, and Morris, his disarmingly likable but …
In Search of Bisco
Häftad, 1995
340 kr
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In 1965, more than five decades after his forced estrangement from his black boyhood friend Bisco, Erskine Caldwell set out across the South to find him. On the journey, which took him from South Carolina to Arkansas, Caldwell spoke to many people on the pretense of asking Bisco's whereabouts: a …
Call It Experience
The Years of Learning How to Write
Häftad, 1996
345 kr
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This memoir presents an engaging self-portrait of Erskine Caldwell's first thirty years as a writer, with special emphasis on his long and hard apprenticeship before he emerged as one of the most widely read and controversial authors of his time. While conveying the enormous amount of drive and …
You Have Seen Their Faces
Inbunden, 2018
1645 kr
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In the middle years of the Great Depression, Erskine Caldwell and photographer Margaret Bourke-White spent eighteen months traveling across the back roads of the Deep South—from South Carolina to Arkansas—to document the living conditions of the sharecropper. Their collaboration resulted in You …
Tobacco Road
Häftad, 2017
139 kr
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Originally published in 1932, Caldwell's novel told the story of the Lester family, poor Georgia sharecroppers who no longer farmed the land, but lived by whatever means possible. Caldwell's picture of the rural South challenged notions of the dignified and polite Antebellum South and depicted an …
Tobacco Road
A Novel
E-bok, 2011
167 kr
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The classic novel of a Georgia family undone by the Great Depression: "[A] story of force and beauty" (New York Post). Even before the Great Depression struck, Jeeter Lester and his family were desperately poor sharecroppers. But when hard times begin to affect the families that once helped support …
God's Little Acre
A Novel
E-bok, 2011
245 kr
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In the Depression-era Deep South, a destitute farmer struggles to raise a family on his own: The bestselling classic by the author of Tobacco Road. Single father and poor Southern farmer Ty Ty Walden has a plan to save his farm and his family: He will tear his fields apart until he finds gold. …
Journeyman
A Novel
E-bok, 2011
30 kr
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The classic American novel of a philandering, murderous preacher from the national bestselling author of God''s Little Acre. When preacher Semon Dye moves into the tiny Georgia town of Rocky Comfort, many of its citizens welcome him. After all, the only church in town is being used to store …
Trouble in July
A Novel
E-bok, 2011
34 kr
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A small Southern town lynches a falsely accused man in "some of the most . . . human and terrifying pages Caldwell has written" (Richard Wright, author of Native Son). When word spreads through Julie County that Sonny Clark, a black man, has assaulted Katy Barlow, a white woman, the man''s fate is …
Georgia Boy
Stories
E-bok, 2011
184 kr
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Fourteen stories that follow a young boy coming of age in a dysfunctional family in the rural SouthMeet William Stroop, a young son of the South whose charming voice and mordant observations of family and culture make him one of American literature''s most memorable narrators. In these fourteen …
Place Called Estherville
A Novel
E-bok, 2011
33 kr
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A searing portrait of racism and violence in a small Southern town from thenational-bestselling author of God''s Little Acre. When mixed-race brother and sister Ganus and Kathyanne Bazemore move to Estherville, a small Southern town, they''re looking for a fresh start. They don''t know anyone and …
Stories of Erskine Caldwell
E-bok, 2011
168 kr
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Short stories about the twentieth-century South by the national bestselling author of Tobacco Road. Author of some of the most widely banned fiction of the twentieth century, Erskine Caldwell had a talent for striking a nerve. In this collection of nearly one hundred stories, the full depth and …
In Search of Bisco
A Memoir
E-bok, 2011
171 kr
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In this travelogue and memoir, groundbreaking novelist Erskine Caldwell looks back at a life lived in the troubled SouthFive decades removed from his own Southern childhood, novelist Erskine Caldwell sets out on a journey to find an old friend—a friend lost to him through the culture of …
Three Classic Novels
Tobacco Road, God''s Little Acre, and Place Called Estherville
E-bok, 2017
166 kr
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Three powerful novels of racism, lust, and poverty in the rural South by a controversial national bestselling author.Bigotry, poverty, social injustice, and sexual squalor in the Deep South—hallmarks of one of the most daring and phenomenally popular bestselling novelists of the twentieth-century. …
Deep South
Memory and Observation
Häftad, 1995
484 kr
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Portraying a region steeped religious piety and ritual, excess and prejudice, Deep South is a product both of Erskine Caldwell the storyteller and Erskine Caldwell the minister's son.Reverend Ira Sylvester Caldwell's missionary work took him and his family deep into the region commonly referred to …
Sacrilege of Alan Kent
Inbunden, 1996
578 kr
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As Mary Hood writes in her foreword, "The Sacrilege of Alan Kent is unique. Comparisons are not odious, they are impossible. There is nothing like it in any of Caldwell's published works, nor can we find its example in all of American literature."Alan Kent is a wanderer, a seeker. Driven by, or …
Journeyman
A Novel
Häftad, 1996
507 kr
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Written immediately following Tobacco Road and God's Little Acre, this novel introduces one of Erskine Caldwell's most memorable characters: the philandering, murderous itinerant preacher, Semon Dye. Part allegory, part tall tale, and with a good measure of old frontier humor, Journeyman,/i> tells …
