Bibliograph

God's little acre, Erskine Caldwell ; foreword by Lewis Nordan

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God's little acre, Erskine Caldwell ; foreword by Lewis Nordan

Language

eng

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government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

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no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

God's little acre

Oclc number

30624122

Responsibility statement

Erskine Caldwell ; foreword by Lewis Nordan

Summary

First published in 1933, God's Little Acre was censured by the Georgia Literary Commission, banned in Boston, attacked by the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice, and once led the all-time best-seller list, with more than ten million copies in print. Like Erskine Caldwell's groundbreaking Tobacco Road, this novel chronicles the final decline of a poor white family in rural Georgia. Exhorted by their patriarch Ty Ty, the Waldens ruin their land by digging it up in search of gold. Complex sexual entanglements and betrayals lead to a murder within the family that completes its dissolution. Juxtaposed against the Waldens' obsessive search is the story of Ty Ty's son-in-law, a cotton mill worker in a nearby town who is killed during a strike

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