Details
Rent Tobacco Road
Author:
Narrator: John MacDonald
Format: Unabridged-CD
Publisher: Blackstone Audio Inc
Published: Jan 2000
Genre: Fiction - Classics
Retail Price: $40.00
Discs: 5
Synopsis
Set during the Depression in the depleted farmloads surrounding Augustus, Georgia, Tobacco Road was first published in 1932. It is the story of the Lesters, a family of destitute white sharecroppers debased by poverty to an elemental state of ignorance and selfishness.
Reviews
Poor folks have no ethics or love of family in this story. That is not my experience. Compared with Grapes of Wrath and other books, this is not very entertaining or thoughtful. Caldwells belief in the misled interpretation of Darwin i.e. eugenicsmade the characters without redeeming qualities. Not worth reading, unless for seeing this then popular fad of eugenics and reflecting on the damage it created. We know what Hitler did with that theory.