Tobacco Road (Paperback)

from Caco_Velho

I just finished rereading "Tobacco Road" by Erskine Caldwell. I must have read this novel when I was in high school, or college perhaps. I remembered only the locale and the general tone of the book, and the names of a couple of the characters. However, the book has enjoyed both fame and notariet...

from richardderus

Book Circle Reads 148 Rating: 3* of five The Book Description: University of Georgia Press's sales copy--Set during the Depression in the depleted farmlands surrounding Augusta, Georgia, Tobacco Road was first published in 1932. It is the story of the Lesters, a family of white sharecroppers so d...

from TheAmpersand

There's a lot about "Tobacco Road" that hasn't aged particularly well. The book's unflinching portrayal of Southern poverty might be, in its own way, commendable, but the author's occasional commentary -- at one point he informs the reader that collective agriculture and modern farming methods mi...

from Castlelass

Published in 1932, this book tells the story of Jeeter Lester, his wife, Ada, daughters, Pearl and Ellie May, son Dude, and son-in-law, Lov Bensey. The Lesters are a family of poor sharecroppers living in rural Georgia during the Great Depression. Lov married Pearl when she was twelve years old, ...

from HeathenMom

this book was acclaimed as 'fully realistic' and 'funny like Mark Twain' on the back...i have to disagree. i honestly have a hard time believing in a group of people this stupid. i did laugh, once. i almost felt like this was written as a cruel stereotype of southern people...prehaps i just didn'...