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Book Review of Tobacco Road: A Play in Three Acts (From the Novel By Erskine Caldwell)

Tobacco Road: A Play in Three Acts (From the Novel By Erskine Caldwell)
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This is a fairly accurate rendition of a book about nothing, unless its poor white trash in Georgia. Lazy, shiftless, down and forever out: no money, no food, no possessions other than a rusting hulk of a car that will never run again. Real Rednecks! The head of this family expresses but one thought over and over. Even when it isnt part of his dialog, we are reminded of it in the narrative. If I read it one more time, Ill puke. Oh-oh, I just puked! As with the book, this is not worth reading!