My most recent visit to Sarasota’s excellent “Selby Library” had me looking for one or more of Taylor Caldwell’s novels.I’d heard that she was a fine writer, and I was looking for her novel “Grandmother and the Priests”.
That book was not on the shelves so I picked out another Caldwell with the intriguing title “God’s Little Acre”.It was not until I was back at home that I noticed that this book was not by Taylor Caldwell, but by Erskine Caldwell.
Published in 1933, “God’s Little Acre” is a searing tale of the lives of poor farmers in Georgia, and textile mill workers in North Carolina.It’s a raw and tough tale which still has the power to shock 77 years after it was published.
I am glad that I was not paying attention when I borrowed this powerful novel from our library, for I was utterly engaged with this book by Erskine (rather than Taylor) Caldwell.It’s a novel whose themes are far from being historic.They are being lived out in many a poor rural community even today.
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