A tale of violence and sex among rural poor in the American South, the novel was highly controversial in its time. It is the story of Georgia sharecropper Jeeter Lester and his family, who are trapped by the bleak economic conditions of the Depression as well as by their own limited intelligence and...

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1. Verfasser:	Caldwell, Erskine 1903-1987 (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Athens [u.a.] Univ. of Georgia Press 1995
Schriftenreihe:	Brown Thrasher books
Schlagworte:	English fiction United States Farm life > Fiction Rural poor > Fiction Sharecroppers > Fiction Tobacco farmers > Fiction USA Georgia > Fiction Fiktionale Darstellung Domestic fiction
Zusammenfassung:	A tale of violence and sex among rural poor in the American South, the novel was highly controversial in its time. It is the story of Georgia sharecropper Jeeter Lester and his family, who are trapped by the bleak economic conditions of the Depression as well as by their own limited intelligence and destructive sexuality. Its tragic ending is almost foreordained by the characters' inability to change their lives. Caldwell's skillful use of dialect and his plain style made the book one of the best examples of literary naturalism in contemporary American fiction. The novel was adapted as a successful play in 1933.
Beschreibung:	IX, 184 S.
ISBN:	0820316601 082031661X