God's Little Acre - Softcover

Caldwell, Erskine

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0451519965 ISBN 13: 9780451519962

Publisher: Penguin Books, Inc., 1946

Synopsis

Description: 1st Penguin Edition

About this title

From the Back Cover:

First published in 1933, God's Little Acre was censured by the Georgia Literary Commission, banned in Boston, attacked by the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice, and once led the all-time best-seller list, with more than ten million copies in print. Like Erskine Caldwell's groundbreaking Tobacco Road, this novel chronicles the final decline of a poor white family in rural Georgia. Exhorted by their patriarch Ty Ty, the Waldens ruin their land by digging it up in search of gold. Complex sexual entanglements and betrayals lead to a murder within the family that completes its dissolution. Juxtaposed against the Waldens' obsessive search is the story of Ty Ty's son-in-law, a cotton mill worker in a nearby town who is killed during a strike.

About the Author:

Erskine Caldwell (1903-1987) was born in Newnan, Georgia. He became one of America's most widely read, prolific, and critically debated writers, with a literary output of more than sixty titles. At the time of his death, Caldwell's books had sold eighty million copies worldwide in more than forty languages. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1984.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Books, Inc.
• Publication date: 1946
• ISBN 10: 0451519965
• ISBN 13: 9780451519962
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 1