En los campos de Augusta, en Georgia, el algodón ha dejado de cultivarse y los campesinos se han trasladado a la ciudad para trabajar en las hilanderías. Jeeter Lester es un blanco pobre, heredero arruinado de una extensa propiedad, que en...
El viudo Chism y el abuelo, blancos y pobres del Sur, malviven en su pequeño pueblo. Echan de menos a Alice, que con bondad y alegría mantenía unida a la familia. El pardre solo piensa en ir a cazar comadrejas con sus perros, y el...
Originally published in 1932, Caldwellâs novel told the story of the Lester family, poor Georgia sharecroppers who no longer farmed the land, but lived by whatever means possible. Caldwellâs picture of the rural South...
This memoir presents an engaging self-portrait of Erskine Caldwell's first thirty years as a writer, with special emphasis on his long and hard apprenticeship before he emerged as one of the most widely read and controversial authors of his time. While...
This novel chronicles the final decline of a poor white family in rural Georgia, who are exhorted by their patriarch, Ty Ty, to dig up their land in search of gold, and who thereby ruin it. Complex sexual entanglements and betrayals lead to a murder withi...