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Lov Bensley trudged homeward…

Tobacco Road by Erskine Caldwell

March 24, 2020 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

The literary equivalent of a Hee Haw joke. “Ah cot mah wife in bed with my brutha” “You bitter?” “Ayup, bit him too!” I am from the South and while I am not from the SOUTH-SOUTH and we were blue collar and working class (more from a mountain town), we didn’t have any money and my siblings and I were the first generation from the family to go to college. I’ve also taken a number of Southern Lit classes. That’s all to say that when […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Erskine Caldwell, tobacco road

vel veeter's CBR12 Review No:145 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Erskine Caldwell, tobacco road ·
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