God's Little Acre

Name: God's Little Acre
Author: Erskine Caldwell

by Erskine Caldwell

Novel set on a Georgia farm exploring morality and survival amid rural desperation

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Erskine Caldwell

Erskine Caldwell was a controversial chronicler of poor white Southerners whose novels Tobacco Road and God's Little Acre shocked readers with their frank sexuality and depiction of rural poverty. He was one of the bestselling American novelists of the mid-twentieth century.

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