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Tobacco Road (Paperback)

by Erskine Caldwell (Author)
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  • Paperback: 192 pages
  • Publisher: University of Georgia Press; New edition edition (30 Sep 1994)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 082031661X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0820316611
  • Product Dimensions: 21.2 x 13.8 x 1.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
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Set during the Depression in the depleted farmlands surrounding Augusta, Georgia, this is the story of the Lesters, a family of destitute white sharecroppers. Debased by their poverty, they fear they will descend to a lower rung on the social ladder than the black families who live near them.

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5.0 out of 5 stars An American Classic, 9 Mar 1999
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Your literary education isn't complete until you've read Caldwell. Tobacco Road and God's Little Acre should be required reading in every high school -- or college, at least -- in America.

If you love Hemingway, Bukowski, Flannery O'Connor, Carson McCullars, Barry Hannah, Larry Brown or any writing that cuts right to the bone and then keeps on cutting, read Erskine Caldwell right now. His work is very, very good.

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4.0 out of 5 stars ignorance, selfishness, and hunger, 16 Oct 1998
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This is a book that oscillates from very comic to deeply tragic. While reading it, I at times began to feel very frustrated and saddened by the Lesters' plight, but in the next instant something so outrageous or unbelievable happened that it jolted me from contemplating this book as reality and made it more into something of a farce. It is amazing the way this book can convey both tragedy and comedy in that way. The Lesters are exploited by the society that they live in, but at the same time they are equally ruined by their own complete lack of intelligence. It is hard to imagine more ignorant and selfish people...do such people really exist? This book is a very entertaining, disturbing, and thought-provoking work.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Tobacco Road hits too close to home., 25 Jun 1998
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Tobacco Road is an important, if not uplifting story that should have broad appeal. Being from the rural south, I struggle with the image stereotypical poor southerner, but, the Lesters make for a compelling composite of the worst elements of southern poverty. Pearl S. Buck's "The Good Earth" makes for a compelling comparison and contrast to "Tobacco Road". Personally, I prefer "The Good Earth".
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4.0 out of 5 stars The ignorance of the Lester family evokes humor.
The plight of the Lester family is depressing, but humorous. Their stupidity made me laugh, especially the scenes involving the destruction of the brand new automobile. Read more
Published on 8 Aug 1999

3.0 out of 5 stars Natural Selection at Work!
I was alternately repulsed by the author's apparent hatred of poor people and horrified to admit that I believe people like this exist. Read more
Published on 3 Aug 1999

2.0 out of 5 stars Southerners.
A touching, moving drama about the perseverance of the human spirit and the brotherhood of man. Not!

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Published on 18 Mar 1999

4.0 out of 5 stars Better than a big ole sack o'turnips
This book is a hoot. Even if you've never known anyone like the Lesters and their cohorts, they seem completely believable.
Published on 16 Oct 1996

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