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Tobacco Road

The Depression has hit the depleted farmlands of Augusta, Georgia, hard. For the Lester family, grinding poverty has become a way of life. Trapped by ignorance and selfishness, the Lesters are torn between surrendering to their hunger and sexual longings, and the fear that they may be slipping even lower than they already are in society's eyes.

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  • "The Depression has hit the depleted farmlands of Augusta, Georgia, hard. For the Lester family, grinding poverty has become a way of life. Trapped by ignorance and selfishness, the Lesters are torn between surrendering to their hunger and sexual longings, and the fear that they may be slipping even lower than they already are in society's eyes."@en
  • "Fifteen miles long and extending from the sandy foothills of Piedmont to the river bluffs, Tobacco Road is home to dozens of poverty-stricken Georgia farmers. Jeeter Lester is one of thse still managing to hang onto his little farm even though it has dwindled to almost nothing. As he and his shiftless family struggle to eke out a living, they romp through one ribald adventure after another.--"
  • "An earthy, raunchy and high spirited rural farce of the Depression in Georgia."
  • "Times are tough in Georgia and farmers like Jeeter can not get enought credit to buy seed or food, and so the author makes his commentary on the social inequities facing the characters who are living in abject existence."@en
  • ""Mr. Caldwell's humor ... has as its source an imagination that stirs the emotions. ... "One of the most popular novels of its time, Tobacco Road has been widely praised for its vivid depiction of the lives of poor white sharecroppers during the Depression. Today, the story remains as stirring and provocative as it was in 1932. The Depression has hit the depleted farmlands of Augusta, Georgia, hard. For the Lester family, grinding poverty has become a way of life. Trapped by ignorance and selfishness, the Lesters are torn between surrendering to their hunger and sexual longings, and the fear that they may be slipping even lower than they already are in society's eyes. An American masterpiece, Tobacco road captures a time and place in history with emotion, intelligence, and elegance."
  • ""Mr. Caldwell's humor ... has as its source an imagination that stirs the emotions. ... "One of the most popular novels of its time, Tobacco Road has been widely praised for its vivid depiction of the lives of poor white sharecroppers during the Depression. Today, the story remains as stirring and provocative as it was in 1932. The Depression has hit the depleted farmlands of Augusta, Georgia, hard. For the Lester family, grinding poverty has become a way of life. Trapped by ignorance and selfishness, the Lesters are torn between surrendering to their hunger and sexual longings, and the fear that they may be slipping even lower than they already are in society's eyes. An American masterpiece, Tobacco road captures a time and place in history with emotion, intelligence, and elegance."@en
  • "The famous saga of Jeeter Lester and his shiftless family. Their ribald adventures along Tobacco Road, once a flourishing plantation, attract a lusty preacher, Sister Bessie."@en
  • "Set during the Depression, Tobacco Road is the story of a family of destitute white sharecroppers debased by poverty to an elemental state of ignorance, selfishness, and fear that they will one day be lower on the social ladder than the black families around them."
  • "Set during the Depression in the depleted farmlands surrounding Augusta, Georgia, Tobacco Road is the story of the Lesters, a family of white sharecroppers so destitute that most of their creditors have given up on them. Debased by poverty to an elemental state of ignorance and selfishness, the Lesters are preoccupied by their hunger, sexual longings, and fear that they will one day descend to a lower rung on the social ladder than the black families who live near them. Caldwell's skillful use of dialect and his plain style make the book one of the best examples of literary naturalism in contemporary American fiction. The novel was adapted as a successful play in 1933."@en
  • "A family of white sharecroppers during the Depression."
  • "The Depression era tale showing the struggles of a poor white sharecropper family."
  • "In the sandy foothills of Georgia's Piedmont during the Great Depression, Jeeter Lester desperately struggles to hang on to his little farm as his only source of pride and identity. His comical search for a wormless turnip are coupled with Sister Bessie's pursuit of sixteen-year-old Dude Lester and a new automobile; Ellie May's pursuit of the hapless Lov Bensey; and the family's vaudevillian journey to sell a load of firewood."@en
  • "Fifteen miles long and extending from the sandy foothills of Piedmont to the river bluffs, Tobacco Road is home to dozens of poverty-stricken Georgia farmers. Jeeter Lester is one of thse still managing to hang onto his little farm even though it has dwindled to almost nothing. As he and his shiftless family struggle to eke out a living, they romp through one ribald adventure after another."@en
  • "The story of a degraded, poor-white Georgia family living in a tumble-down shack on worn out land. This land had once been the prosperous tobacco plantation of Jeeter Lester's grandfather."@en
  • "Set during the Depression in the depleted farmlands surrounding Augusta, Georgia, Tobacco Road was first published in 1922. It is the story of the Lesters, a family of white sharecroppers so destitute that most of their creditors have given up on them ..."@en
  • "Set during the Depression in the depleted farmlands surrounding Augusta, Georgia, this is the story of the Lesters, a family of white sharecroppers reduced by their poverty to an elemental state of ignorance, selfishness, and fear."@en

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  • "Black humor (Literature)"
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  • "Domestic fiction"
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  • "Tobacco road [sound recording]"
  • "Tobacco Road"
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