Reviews for Tobacco Road
Review - Tobacco Road
Just stupid.
Reviewed by Roger on 2003-07-20 08:58:58
Tobacco Roadby Erskine Caldwell | |
| Category: |
"Fiction - General" |
|---|---|
| Pages: | 187 |
| Year of Publication: | 1934 |
| Date Read: | 11/16/1996 |
| Notes: | It is the story of Georgia sharecropper Jeeter Lester and his family, who are trapped by the bleak economic conditions of the Depression as well as by their own limited intelligence and destructive sexuality. Its tragic ending is almost foreordained by the characters' inability to change their lives. Caldwell's skillful use of dialect and his plain style made the book one of the best examples of literary naturalism in contemporary American fiction. The novel was adapted as a successful play in 1933. — Amazon |
| My Rating: | 2 |