Tobacco Road (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Erskine Caldwell
- First Published: 1932
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Naturalism
- Time of Work: 1920’s
- Setting: Georgia
- Principal Characters: Jeeter Lester, Ada, Dude, Ellie May, Pearl, Lov Bensey, Bessie
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: Family or family life
- Locales: Georgia
The Story:
Lov Bensey, husband of Pearl, the fifteen-year-old daughter of Jeeter Lester, felt low in his mind when he stopped by the Lester house on his way home with a bag of turnips. Pearl, he complained, refused to have anything to do with him; she would neither sleep with him nor talk to him.
The Lesters lived in a one-room shack that was falling apart. They had nothing to eat but pork rind soup. Jeeter was trying to patch an inner tube so that the Lester car, a nondescript wreck which had been refused even by the junk dealer, could be used to carry firewood to...
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