Name: Tobacco Road
ISBN: 9780451009784

Erskine Caldwell

Tobacco Road

Jeeter Lester, a poor Georgia sharecropper, and his family struggle to get by, but when his son Dude is seduced and married by Jeeter's widowed sister, it starts a tragic chain of events.

Melody Izard

Kind of like a Jim Thompson book with its awkward characters in their tragic situations kicking the dust around while evil stays next door. Jim Thompson's evil is right there is the front room with his shoes up on your coffee table while Erskine's is hidden behind a deformed nose. But there's always a fire that some how fails to clean things up just like you'd like. And you better believe there are worms in the turnips.

Tobacco Road

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