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Set during the Great 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 ignorance and selfishness, the Lesters are preoccupied by their hunger, sexual longings, and fear that they will someday descend to a lower rung on the social ladder than the black families who live near them.
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Erskine Caldwell, Adult, Fiction, Classic Literature, Novel, Hardcover, Paperback, e-book, Great Depression, Poverty, Destitution, Hunger, Ignorance, Selfishness, Rural poor, Farm life, Tobacco farmers, Sharecroppers, Georgia, fiction, American fiction (fictional works by one author), Large type booksPlaces
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Tobacco Road: Collins #257 ''Life in the Georgia Hills''
1947, Wm. Collins Sons & Co.
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*Manufactured in Great Britain* / Other system no. (OCoLC)1246052 / Related names: Herman Finkelstein Collection (Library of Congress) /
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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 them, the Lesters slip completely into the abyss. Rather than hold on to each other for support, Jeeter, his wife Ada, and their twelve children are overcome by the fractured and violent society around them. Banned and burned when first released in 1932, Tobacco Road is a brutal examination of poverty’s dehumanizing influence by one of America’s great masters of political fiction.
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