Tobacco Road

Name: Tobacco Road
Author: Erskine Caldwell

by Erskine Caldwell

Novel depicting the desperate poverty and degradation of rural Georgia sharecroppers

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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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