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Georgia Boy
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Georgia Boy Paperback - 1995

by Caldwell, Erskine

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In this collection of 14 interrelated stories, 12-year-old William Stroup recounts the ludricrous predicaments and often self-imposed hardships his family endures. Beneath the book's folksy lightheartedness, however, lie the problems of indigence, racism, and apathy that Caldwell confronted repeatedly in his fiction.

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  • Title Georgia Boy
  • Author Caldwell, Erskine
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint Edition
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 256
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Georgia Press, Athens
  • Date 1995-08-01
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 0820317365.G
  • ISBN 9780820317366 / 0820317365
  • Weight 0.85 lbs (0.39 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.48 x 5.66 x 0.73 in (21.54 x 14.38 x 1.85 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Deep South
    • Cultural Region: Southeast U.S.
    • Cultural Region: South
    • Demographic Orientation: Rural
    • Geographic Orientation: Georgia
  • Library of Congress subjects Georgia - Social life and customs - Fiction, Country life - Georgia - Fiction
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 95013815
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

From the rear cover

In this appealing collection of fourteen interrelated stories, twelve-year-old William Stroup recounts the ludicrous predicaments and often self-imposed hardships his family endures. Playing on the tension between his hardworking, sensible mother and his disarmingly likable but shiftless and philandering father, William tells of Pa's flirtation with a widow, his swapping match with a band of gypsies, his battle of wits with a traveling silk-tie saleswoman, and his get-rich-quick schemes based on selling Ma's old love letters and collecting scrap iron.

About the author

Erskine Caldwell (1903-1987) was born in Newnan, Georgia. He became one of America's most widely read, prolific, and critically debated writers, with a literary output of more than sixty titles. At the time of his death, Caldwell's books had sold eighty million copies worldwide in more than forty languages. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1984.