God's Little Acre

from richardderus

Rating: 3.75* of five The Book Report: First published in 1933, when the author was a mere slip of a thirty-year-old, this novel starts in a hole and keeps digging deeper and deeper. Literally, not metaphorically. Well, literally AND metaphorically. Ty Ty and his sons are poor white Southern Amer...

from hardlyhardy

The Penguin paperback copy of "God's Little Acre" I just finished reading was printed in February 1948 and was Penguin's 18th printing of Erskine Caldwell's 1933 novel. It's first printing was in March 1946, meaning the publisher had been printing new copies of the book almost monthly. That gives...

from JVioland

One man's obsession ruins a Southern rural family. Not too good - highly overrated.

from jpporter

It is very hard to rate a good book when it flies in the face of one's principles. In God's Little Acre, author Erskine Caldwell expresses an attitude towards sex, marriage and women that I find offensive, but he does it so well that while I may disagree with pretty much all of what he says, I ha...

from jpporter

It is very hard to rate a good book when it flies in the face of one's principles. In God's Little Acre, author Erskine Caldwell expresses an attitude towards sex, marriage and women that I find offensive, but he does it so well that while I may disagree with pretty much all of what he says, I ha...