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Caldwell Erskine
In Search of Bisco (Brown Thrasher Books)
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In 1965, more than five decades after his forced estrangement from his black boyhood friend Bisco, Erskine Caldwell set out across the South to find him. On the journey, which took him from South Carolina to Arkansas, Caldwell spoke to many people on the pretense of asking Bisco's whereabouts: a black college professor in Atlanta, Georgia; a white real estate salesman in Demopolis, Alabama; a black sharecropper in the Yazoo Basin of the Mississippi Delta; a transplanted white New England housewife in Bastrop, Louisiana; and others. Eighteen of those conversations, with Caldwell's commentary, make up this book. Caldwell made his journey at the zenith of the civil rights movement. Bisco, whom Caldwell never found, becomes a symbol for the South's race problem, to which he sought an answer in the emotions, experiences, and attitudes of those he encountered.
Tobacco Road (Play)
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Jack Kirkland adapted from the novel by Erskine Caldwell Full Length, Comedy Characters: 6 male, 5 female Exterior Set The story of the Lester's of "Tobacco Road", of father Jeeter who dreams of planting a garden beside his ramshackle home, the idiotic son who marries a ravenous evangelist and drives an automobile to destruction, a daughter with strong sexual inclinations, another who is sold into marriage for $7. This heralded play ran for over 3,000 performances in it's intial Broadway production.
The Stories of Erskine Caldwell
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This collection of ninety-six stories was first published in 1953 and presents the best of Erskine Caldwell's short fiction from his most productive period of work. Included is "Crown-Fire," which James Dickey praised as "the best story in the language," and such personal favorites of Caldwell as "Country Full of Swedes," "The Windfall," "Horse Thief," "Yellow Girl," and "Kneel to the Rising Sun."
Place Called Estherville
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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.
Journeyman (Brown Thrasher Books)
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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 humor, Journeyman,/i> tells of a stranger, as devilish as he is divine, who mysteriously arrives in Rocky Comfort, Georgia, and, inside of a week, nearly tears the small community apart.Helping Rocky Comfort's citizens to rationalize their vices and weaknesses, Semon Dye then uses their flaws to his own advantage. Offering no forgiveness for their actions and no justification for his own, he confronts the people of Rocky Comfort with their own sins as he gambles, drinks, carouses, and fights along with them. Culminating in a tumultuous, ecstatic revival, Journeyman is filled with insights into human nature and the physical and emotional components of religious fervor. This volume reprints the complete text of Journeyman as it was first published, before the more widely circulated edition, expurgated in the aftermath of the legal battles waged against God's Little Acre, was released.
Trouble in July (Brown Thrasher Books)
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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 Clark through many eyes. However, Caldwell reserves some of his most powerful passages for the few who truly held Clark's life in their hands but let it go: people like Sheriff Jeff McCurtain, who did nothing to disperse the mob; Harvey Glenn, who found Clark in hiding and turned him in; and Katy Barlow, who withdrew her false charge of rape only after Clark was dead.
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David Shribman: Getting the small things right - The Daily News of Newburyport
The Daily News of Newburyport, MA - May 23, 2009
David Shribman: Getting the small things rightWith his death came the death of a special era in American letters, for Lathem was the center of a remarkable universe that included such disparate figures as Robert Frost, Dr. Seuss, Wallace Stegner, Erskine Caldwell, Paul Sample and members of the
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Tragic Emma's story boosts drugs helpline - The Paisley Daily Express
The Paisley Daily Express, UK - May 20, 2009
Tragic Emma's story boosts drugs helpline Caldwell for their courageous decision to step up and publicly back the campaign. “I have no doubt in highlighting their personal tragedy they have encouraged many other parents to discuss these issues with their children.” Erskine woman Emma, 27,
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Club gave black students at Cornell forum for talks - Ithaca Journal
Ithaca Journal, NY - May 23, 2009
Club gave black students at Cornell forum for talksThey held meetings with members of the congregation of St. James AME Zion Church on Cleveland Avenue and conducted discussion of current books, such as those written by Pearl Buck, Thomas Wolfe and Erskine Caldwell. They also heard lectures and debated
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Saadat Hasan Manto's Letter to Uncle Sam - GrandeStrategy
GrandeStrategy, VA - Feb 11, 5151
Saadat Hasan Manto's Letter to Uncle SamAll I really wanted to do was to convey my good wishes to brother Erskine Caldwell. You will no doubt recall that you tried him for his novel 'God's Little Acre' on the same charge that I have faced here: pornography. Believe me, uncle, when I hear
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Life is very hard without Emma... We have to take things day by day - The Paisley Daily Express
The Paisley Daily Express, UK - May 06, 2009
Life is very hard without Emma We have to take things day by dayThe 27-year-old Erskine woman was last seen alive in April 2005, leaving a hostel on the South Side of Glasgow. Less then six weeks later – on May 8 – her lifeless body was found in woods near Roberton in South Lanarkshire. Her parents had feared the We'll never stop fighting to get justice for Emma
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