New Releases by Erskine Caldwell

" Sur la première marche de la véranda, Buck était assis, la tête penchée sur la poitrine. Le fusil était toujours par terre, là où il l''avait laissé tomber. Ty Ty fit un tour complet pour éviter de le voir. - Du sang sur ma terre ! murmurait-il. Devant lui, la ferme s''étendait, désolée. Les tas de sable jaune et d''argile rouge, séparés par les grands cratères rouges, le sol rouge, inculte - la terre semblait désolée. Ty Ty, à l''ombre du chêne, se sentait complètement exténué. Il n''avait plus de force dans les muscles quand il pensait à l''or enfoui dans la terre, sous sa ferme. Il ne savait pas où se trouvait l''or et il ne savait pas comment il le pourrait extraire, maintenant que ses forces l''avaient abandonné. "

Seventeen short stories which have appeared in previous volumes or magazines.

Two complete novels and twenty short stories.

In this story of the deterioration and decadence among the down-and-out aristocracy of the South, Lucyanne struggles in her marriage to abusive, philandering Grady Dunbar.

"It would take more than the genius of Erskine Caldwell to rescue this from the lime. It is being labelled a city slum "Tobacco Road" -- but, for my money, it lacks the redeeming milk of human kindness and the humor that might have put it in that category. In the abstract, one can deplore the possibility of a society which permits such fetid city cesspools as Poor Boy; but as one reads of the down-and-outors who were washed up when the boom of the war passed them by, Caldwell gives one little cause to feel that such poor flotsam of humanity can ever find justification for survival.....Spence Douthit futilely longs for the hills he left, but cannot translate his homesickness into action; his war job and earnings gone, he lives on the edge of extinction, saved by the meagre handouts of Libby, the older daughter, who alone has the guts to reach beyond the slime. His wife, the whining, sodden Maud; Navi, who at 13 has found her niche in a whorehouse; his pal, Spence, with his growing swarm of potential prostitutes; the quarrelsome next-door-neighbors -- form the cast for an experiment in social welfare which is deliberately caricatured out of recognition."--Kirkus.

Personal experiences of Caldwell with guerrilla warfare in the Soviet Union.