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A review by amittaizero
Tobacco Road by Erskine Caldwell
5.0
Well damn, I haven't read a book that fast in a long time. Literally hard to put down. Cover photo by Walker Evans, which makes sense given his work with James Agee on "Let Us Now Praise Famous Men."
The characters could easily have been aspects of my ancestors: illiterate tobacco farmers in NC and cotton mill workers in SC after leaving farming.
I don't know. It's not southern Gothic, really, though it feels like it sometimes. The exposition gets a bit clunky a few times but never overbearing.
Just people. Just suffering.
The characters could easily have been aspects of my ancestors: illiterate tobacco farmers in NC and cotton mill workers in SC after leaving farming.
I don't know. It's not southern Gothic, really, though it feels like it sometimes. The exposition gets a bit clunky a few times but never overbearing.
Just people. Just suffering.