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. Its tragic ending is almost foreordained by the characters? inability to change their lives. Erskine Caldwell, the writer who shocked readers and outraged many of his fellow southerners with unvarnished novels and short stories about squalid life in the cotton country backwoods, died. 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. The book is a tale of violence and sex among rural poor in the American South. Wraps are not bent or folded spine is not creased or split text is secure in binding. Book Condition: Very Good slight edgewear on spine slight bumping to tips and head. Book is tight, square, and unmarked but for F/O name on the first page.
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