Tobacco Road.
by Caldwell, Erskine
- Used
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Palm Beach, Florida, United States
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About This Item
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1932. Unsentimentally realistic, this classic novel is a reflection of the effects of poverty on tenant farmers in the South during the Great Depression. It focuses on the Lester family, former cotton farmers who continue to live on their ancestors' plantation even though it has long ceased to be prosperous. Jeeter and Ada Lester have 17 children, two of whom still live at home: Ellie May, their only unmarried daughter who has a cleft lip, and Dude, their youngest son who is mentally handicapped. The family's antics, while at times vile and perverse, depict the racism and moral ambiguity that existed among some impoverished Southerners at that time and represent Erskine Caldwell's critique of the failed economic system and its consequences. It was the basis for the Broadway show which ran from 1933 to 1941 (then the longest-running play on record), and adapted into the 1941 film directed by John Ford starring Charley Grapewin, Marjorie Rambeau, Gene Tierney, William Tracy, Dana Andrews and Ward Bond. Named by Modern Library as one of the 100 greatest novels of the twentieth century.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Raptis Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 116873
- Title
- Tobacco Road.
- Author
- Caldwell, Erskine
- Book Condition
- Used
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1932
- Keywords
- erskine caldwell, first edition, signed, Tobacco Road First Edition
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