New Releases by Erskine Caldwell

Strong-minded Southern widow supports and rules a curious menage of kinfolk as she does battle against the encroachments of the modern world.

Seventeen short stories which have appeared in previous volumes or magazines.

Two complete novels and twenty short stories.

In this story of the deterioration and decadence among the down-and-out aristocracy of the South, Lucyanne struggles in her marriage to abusive, philandering Grady Dunbar.

"It would take more than the genius of Erskine Caldwell to rescue this from the lime. It is being labelled a city slum "Tobacco Road" -- but, for my money, it lacks the redeeming milk of human kindness and the humor that might have put it in that category. In the abstract, one can deplore the possibility of a society which permits such fetid city cesspools as Poor Boy; but as one reads of the down-and-outors who were washed up when the boom of the war passed them by, Caldwell gives one little cause to feel that such poor flotsam of humanity can ever find justification for survival.....Spence Douthit futilely longs for the hills he left, but cannot translate his homesickness into action; his war job and earnings gone, he lives on the edge of extinction, saved by the meagre handouts of Libby, the older daughter, who alone has the guts to reach beyond the slime. His wife, the whining, sodden Maud; Navi, who at 13 has found her niche in a whorehouse; his pal, Spence, with his growing swarm of potential prostitutes; the quarrelsome next-door-neighbors -- form the cast for an experiment in social welfare which is deliberately caricatured out of recognition."--Kirkus.

Personal experiences of Caldwell with guerrilla warfare in the Soviet Union.