Erskine Caldwell (1903–1987) is the author of twenty-five novels, numerous short stories, and a dozen nonfiction titles, most depicting the harsh realities of life in the American South during the Great Depression. His books have been published in forty-five languages and have sold tens of millions of copies, with God’s Little Acre alone selling more than fourteen million. Caldwell’s graphic realism and unabashedly political themes earned him the scorn of critics and censors early in his career, though by the end of his life he was acknowledged as a giant of American literature.
A beautifully integrated story of the barren southern farm and the
shut southern mill, and one of the finest studies of the southern
poor white which has ever come into our literature. Writing in the
brutal images of the life of his poor white people, Mr. Caldwell
has caught in poetic quality the debased and futile aspiration of
men and women restless in a world of long hungers which must be
satisfied quickly, if at all.--Saturday Review of Literature
Caldwell is one of the best . . . a master illusionist who can
create, as Hemingway did, an impression of absolute reality.--Time
Magazine
What William Faulkner implies, Erskine Caldwell records.--Chicago
Tribune
A beautifully integrated story of the barren southern farm and the shut southern mill, and one of the finest studies of the southern poor white which has ever come into our literature. Writing in the brutal images of the life of his poor white people, Mr. Caldwell has caught in poetic quality the debased and futile aspiration of men and women restless in a world of long hungers which must be satisfied quickly, if at all.
--Saturday Review of LiteratureCaldwell is one of the best . . . a master illusionist who can create, as Hemingway did, an impression of absolute reality.
--Time MagazineWhat William Faulkner implies, Erskine Caldwell records.
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