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God's Little Acre
Erskine Caldwell
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Description for God's Little Acre
Paperback. This novel chronicles the final decline of a poor white family in rural Georgia, who are exhorted by their patriarch, Ty Ty, to dig up their land in search of gold, and who thereby ruin it. Complex sexual entanglements and betrayals lead to a murder within the family that completes its dissolution. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 142 x 15. Weight in Grams: 272.
Like 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.
First published in 1933, God's Little Acre was censured by the Georgia Literary Commission, banned in Boston, and once led ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Number of pages
232
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Condition
New
Weight
271g
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Georgia, United States
ISBN
9780820316635
SKU
V9780820316635
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Ref
99-1
About Erskine Caldwell
ERSKINE CALDWELL (1903-1987) was born in Newnan, Georgia. He became one of America's most widely read, prolific, and critically debated writers, with a literary output of more than sixty titles. At the time of his death, Caldwell's books had sold eighty million copies worldwide in more than forty languages. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters ... Read more
Reviews for God's Little Acre
What William Faulkner implies, Erskine Caldwell records. Caldwell is one of the best . . . a master illusionist who can create, as Hemingway did, an impression of absolute reality. A beautifully integrated story of the barren southern farm and the shut southern mill, and one of the finest studies of the southern poor white which has ever come into ... Read more