Tobacco road Caldwell, Erskine 1903-1987 creator author. text Domestic fiction. Domestic fiction Fiction History Domestic fiction. nyu New York Modern Library ©1940 1940 monographic eng print 241 pages ; 18 cm. Progressive degeneration of a poor-white Georgia family living in a tumble-down shack on worn-out land that had once been a prosperous tobacco plantation. A tale of violence and sex among rural poor in the American South, the novel was highly controversial in its time. 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. by Erskine Caldwell. n-us-ga n-us--- Tobacco farmers Fiction Sharecroppers Fiction Rural poor Fiction Farm life Fiction Families Fiction United States Social conditions 1918-1932 Fiction United States Social conditions 1933-1945 Fiction United States History 1919-1933 Fiction Georgia Fiction Métayers Géorgie (État) Romans, nouvelles, etc Pauvres en milieu rural Géorgie (État) Romans, nouvelles, etc Vie à la ferme Géorgie (État) Romans, nouvelles, etc Familles Géorgie (État) Romans, nouvelles, etc États-Unis Conditions sociales 1918-1932 Romans, nouvelles, etc États-Unis Conditions sociales 1933-1945 Romans, nouvelles, etc États-Unis Histoire 1919-1933 Romans, nouvelles, etc Géorgie (État) Romans, nouvelles, etc Tabaculteurs Romans, nouvelles, etc Métayers Romans, nouvelles, etc Pauvres en milieu rural Romans, nouvelles, etc Vie à la ferme Romans, nouvelles, etc Familles Romans, nouvelles, etc Tobacco farmers Families Farm life Rural poor Sharecroppers Social conditions Georgia United States 1918-1945 fast PS3505.A322 T6 1940 813/.5/2 Tobacco road Caldwell, Erskine, 1903-1987. New York : Modern Library, ©1940 (OCoLC)707440901 Modern library of the world's best books 48009238 TPN 820114 20241023120926.0 in00000717514 eng