This collection of 96 stories presents the best of Erskine Calder's short fiction from his most productive period of work. Included here is "Crown-Fire", "Country Full of Swedes", "The Windfall", "Horse Thief", "Yellow Girl" and "Kneel to the Rising Sun".[...]
Set during the Depression in the depleted farmlands surrounding Augusta, Georgia, this is the story of the Lesters, a family of destitute white sharecroppers. Debased by their poverty, they fear they will descend to a lower rung on the social ladder than the black families who live near them.[...]
Ty Ty Walden, a poor Georgia farmer, dedicates an acre of his barren land to God as he and his family struggle for peace and prosperity[...]
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 prospero[...]
Tobaksvägen, berättelsen om hur den fantastiska arrendatorsfamiljen Lester framlever sina dagar, är full av komiska fiaskon i kampen för tillvaron. Det är en burlesk underhållning, men i grunden handlar den om en samling offer för ett omöjligt samhälls- och jordbrukssystem.
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