Login
Register
Home || Search || About us || Blog || Contact us || Other book sites

Name: God's Little Acre

Author: Erskine Caldwell
Year: 1933
Rank:

Rating:

Original Rating:

Popularity: 1.6
Genres/categories: Classic

Purchase/research links:
Caldwell'??s blockbuster bestseller: In the Depression-era Deep South, destitute farmer Ty Ty Walden struggles to raise a family on his own Single father and poor Southern farmer Ty Ty Walden has a plan to save his farm and his family: He will tear his fields apart until he finds gold. While Ty Ty obsesses over his fool'??s quest, his sons and daughters search in vain for their own dreams of instant happiness'??whether from money, violence, or sex. God'??s Little Acre is a classic dark comedy, a satire that lampoons a broken South while holding a light to the toll that poverty takes on the hopes and dreams of the poor themselves. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Erskine Caldwell including rare photos and never-before-seen documents courtesy of the Dartmouth College Library.
Similar books:

Of Mice and Men
by John Steinbeck

Oliver Twist
by Charles Dickens

Room
by Emma Donoghue

Sophie's World
by Jostein Gaarder

The Sound and the Fury
by William Faulkner

Breakfast at Tiffany's
by Truman Capote

Mrs. Dalloway
by Virginia Woolf

As I Lay Dying
by William Faulkner

Revolutionary Road
by Richard Yates

The House of Mirth
by Edith Wharton

Absalom, Absalom!
by William Faulkner

To the Lighthouse
by Virginia Woolf

The Crying of Lot 49
by Thomas Pynchon

Light In August
by William Faulkner

Jude the Obscure
by Thomas Hardy

The Pearl
by John Steinbeck

Housekeeping
by Marilynne Robinson

Sometimes a Great Notion
by Ken Kesey

As I Lay Dying
by William Faulker

The Bone People
by Keri Hulme