Con “Fermento di luglio” ed una nuova galleria di tipi disumani Erskine Caldwell chiuse il suo Ciclo del Sud. In questo romanzo ritroviamo l’Inetto nei panni di uno sceriffo che tenta in tutti i modi di non farsi coinvolgere nelle vicende che stravolgono la sua contea, rendendosi così complice di...
From the back of the book: Erskine Caldwell is one of the most widely read authors of the Twentieth Century with eighty million books sold in over forty languages...Literary scholars have placed Erskine Caldwell with Fitzgerald, Wolfe, and Steinbeck, and William Faulkner considered him one of Am...
BLURB"Set during the Depression in the depleted farmlands surrounding Augusta, Georgia, Tobacco Road was first published in 1932. It is the story of the Lesters, a family of white sharecroppers so destitute that most of their creditors have given up on them. Debased by poverty to an elemental sta...
Picked this up in a little independent bookstore while visiting Chapel Hill, NC, to have a little southern memento in the form of a little old (but well preserved) Signet pocket sized paperback. I think I payed $3 in cash. A strange little tale of the south (Augusta Georgia) where Ty Ty (the elde...