by Erskine Caldwell · Important Books · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788087888902
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«Tobacco Road» is a novel by Erskine Caldwell, published by Important Books in paperback (108 pages, in English).
Set in rural Georgia during the Great Depression, the novel follows the Lester family, ruined sharecroppers struggling to survive on exhausted land. Caldwell portrays their misery, ignorance, and elemental desires with a direct style and a notable use of dialect; it is a key work of American literary naturalism.
The novel was originally published in 1932 and adapted for the theatre in 1933. The Modern Library list includes it among the 100 best novels in English of the twentieth century.
For readers of American social fiction, Southern Gothic, and classics set during the Great Depression.
Erskine Preston Caldwell was an American novelist and short story writer. His writings about poverty, racism and social problems in his native Southern United States, in novels such as Tobacco Road (1932) and God's Little Acre (1933), won him critical acclaim.
