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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.
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"What William Faulkner implies, Erskine Caldwell records."--"Chicago Tribune"
"Caldwell is one of the best . . . a master illusionist who can create, as Hemingway did, an impression of absolute reality."--"Time Magazine"
"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 our literature. Writing in the brutal images of the life of his poor white people, Mr. Caldwell has caught in poetic quality the debased and futile aspiration of men and women restless in a world of long hungers which must be satisfied quickly, if at all."--"Saturday Review of Literature"
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"Caldwell is one of the best . . . a master illusionist who can create, as Hemingway did, an impression of absolute reality."--"Time Magazine"
"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 our literature. Writing in the brutal images of the life of his poor white people, Mr. Caldwell has caught in poetic quality the debased and futile aspiration of men and women restless in a world of long hungers which must be satisfied quickly, if at all."--"Saturday Review of Literature"
What William Faulkner implies, Erskine Caldwell records.--"Chicago Tribune"
Caldwell is one of the best . . . a master illusionist who can create, as Hemingway did, an impression of absolute reality.--"Time Magazine"
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 our literature. Writing in the brutal images of the life of his poor white people, Mr. Caldwell has caught in poetic quality the debased and futile aspiration of men and women restless in a world of long hungers which must be satisfied quickly, if at all.--"Saturday Review of Literature"
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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- PublisherDove Entertainment Inc
- Publication date1997
- ISBN 10 078710910X
- ISBN 13 9780787109103
- BindingAudio Cassette
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