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Description

Set during the Depression in the depleted farmloads surrounding Augustus, Georgia, Tobacco Road was first published in 1932. It is the story of the Lesters, a family of destitute white sharecroppers debased by poverty to an elemental state of ignorance and selfishness.

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First Sentence

Lov BENSEY trudged homeward through the deep white sand of the gully-washed tobacco road with a sack of winter turnips on his back.

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  1. Erskine Caldwell (Author)
 

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