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God's Little Acre

By Erskine Caldwell

Book information

Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Year
1995
ISBN
0820316636, 9780820316635
LCC
PS3505.A322 G6 1995
Google Books ID
AUbPu56tCLcC
Open Library ID
OL1095894M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
476 kB (487541 bytes)
Pages
117\117
Orientation
no
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-08-31 04:54:40

Description

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 the all-time best-seller list, with more than ten million copies in print.

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