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1	Tobacco Road more books like this by Erskine Caldwell add to wishlist Set during the Depression in the depleted farmlands surrounding Augusta, Georgia, this is the story of the Lesters, a family of destitute white sharecroppers. Debased by their poverty, they fear they will descend to a lower rung on the social ladder than the black families who live near them. see all copies from $2.92! new only from $13.55! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	God's Little Acre more books like this by Erskine Caldwell add to wishlist 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 within the family that completes its dissolution. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $14.21! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	You Have Seen Their Faces more books like this by Erskine Caldwell add to wishlist This Depression-era collaboration between Erskine Caldwell and Margaret Bourke-White (who married three years later) documents the heartrending plight of sharecroppers in the Deep South in vivid prose and unforgettable photographs. see all copies from $6.65! new only from $26.18! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	Poor Fool more books like this by Erskine Caldwell add to wishlist Published in 1930, Poor Fool was Erskine Caldwell's second novel. Like most of his fiction, it revolves around a gallery of grotesque characters motivated by the basest urges. The novel's central figure is Blondy Niles, a down-and-out boxer who exists at the very fringes of society. The garish nighttime world of bars and prostitutes, con men and ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $53.99! \| signed copies \| first editions
5	Sacrilege of Alan Kent more books like this by Erskine Caldwell, Ralph Frizzell (Illustrator), Mary Hood (Foreword by) add to wishlist A semi-autobiography of the childhood of Alan Kent, from early manhood to artist. The text includes brief, graphic sketches which illustrate the struggle against various hardening effects of a brutal and seemingly indifferent world. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $31.00! \| signed copies \| first editions
6	The Sure Hand of God by Erskine Caldwell add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions
7	Place called Estherville more books like this by Erskine Caldwell add to wishlist With a true American voice, Caldwell presents a searing view of the tragic struggles of a black brother and sister in their attempt to survive the racism and perverse sexuality of their brutal Southern employers. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $15.07! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
8	Writing in America. more books like this by Erskine Caldwell add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions \| SVS
9	Deep South; memory and observation. more books like this by Erskine Caldwell add to wishlist This work presents a mixture of anecdotes, memories, interviews and observations from a minister's son whose father performed missionary work in the deeply religious communities of the Bible Belt in America. see all copies from $2.11! new only from $14.90! \| first editions \| SVS
10	Tragic ground by Erskine Caldwell add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
11	Journeyman more books like this by Erskine Caldwell add to wishlist Written immediately following "Tobacco Road" and "God's Little Acre", this novel introduces one of Erskine Caldwell's most memorable characters: the philandering, murderous itinerant preacher, Semon Dye. Part allegory, part tall tale, and with a good measure of old frontier humour, "Journeyman" tells of a stranger, as devilish as he is divine, who ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $14.13! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
12	With All My Might: An Autobiography more books like this by Erskine Caldwell add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
13	Trouble in July more books like this by Erskine Caldwell add to wishlist Through the summer twilight in the Depression-era South, word begins to circulate of a black man accosting a white woman. In no time the awful forces of public opinion and political expediency goad the separate fears and frustrations of a small southern community into the single-mindedness of a mob. Erskine Caldwell shows the lynching of Sonny ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $12.61! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
14	Conversations with Erskine Caldwell more books like this by Edwin T Arnold (Editor), Erskine Caldwell add to wishlist Conversations with Erskine Caldwell contains thirty-two interviews with this major writer, who during his long career enjoyed both the celebrity and the controversy that his books generated. These collected interviews include what is apparently his first, given in 1929 before the publication of The Bastard, to one of the very last, given only ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.48! \| first editions \| SVS
15	In Search of Bisco more books like this by Erskine Caldwell, Wayne Mixon (Foreword by) add to wishlist This is the story of the journey of Erskine Caldwell as he set out across the South to find his black boyhood friend, at the zenith of the civil rights movement. It seeks to answer questions surrounding the race problem through the many people that he met. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $33.30! \| signed copies \| first editions
16 view cover	Call it experience; the years of learning how to write. more books like this by Erskine Caldwell add to wishlist This memoir presents a self-portrait of Esrkine Caldwell's first 30 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 writers of his time. All the while conveying the enormous amount of drive and dedication with which he pursued the writer's life, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.44! \| first editions
17 view cover	Georgia boy more books like this by Erskine Caldwell add to wishlist In this collection of 14 inter-related stories, 12-year-old William Stroup recounts the ludicrous predicaments and often self-imposed hardships his family endures. see all copies from $2.95! new only from $14.33! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	Men and Women more books like this by Erskine Caldwell add to wishlist A collection of Caldwell's finest short stories moves deftly from youth to old age. Caldwell shows great perception of adolescent awakening to awareness of physical love and the often humorous tribulations of youthful courtship. Marriage and aspects of love and life in later years are the subjects of further stories, as well as an astute glance at ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $15.17! \| first editions \| SVS
19	Call it experience. more books like this by Erskine Caldwell add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! signed copies \| first editions
20	Afternoons in Mid-America : observations and impressions more books like this by Erskine Caldwell add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
21	This very earth more books like this by Erskine Caldwell add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	Stories of Erskine Caldwell more books like this by Erskine Caldwell, Stanley W Lindberg (Foreword by) add to wishlist This collection of 96 stories presents the best of Erskine Caldwell's short fiction from his most productive period of work. Included here is "Crown-Fire", "Country Full of Swedes", "The Windfall", "Horse Thief", "Yellow Girl" and "Kneel to the Rising Sun". see all copies from $8.69! new only from $42.77!
23	Stories of Life, North & South: Selections from the Best Short Stories of Erskine Caldwell more books like this by Erskine Caldwell add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! signed copies \| first editions
24	Last Night of Summer more books like this by Erskine Caldwell add to wishlist see all copies from $2.00! first editions
25	Say, is This the U.S.A. more books like this by Erskine Caldwell add to wishlist see all copies from $11.71! first editions \| SVS

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