ISBN 9780786401086 | 0786401087 Textbooks - "Erskine Caldwell Selected Letters 1929&1955" by CALDWELL Robert L McDonald Erskine Caldwell Erskine Robert L McDonald

Authors: CALDWELL - Robert L. McDonald - Erskine Caldwell - Erskine & Robert L. McDonald
ISBN 10: 0786401087
ISBN 13: 9780786401086
Format: Hardcover (249 pages)
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Book Description:
"I'm just an ordinary writer," Erskine Caldwell once wrote. "I'm not trying to sell anything; I'm not trying to buy anything. I'm just trying to present my vision of life." His ostensibly unsolicitous vision of Southern grotesques, of the slack-jawed, pellagra-ridden sharecroppers, repressed farmwives, and oversexed nymphets, elicited, however, anything but an "ordinary" response. Hailed by the likes of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Maxwell Perkins, reviled by others as a pornographer or sensationalist, Caldwell was once called "America's most popular author." Once the furor flagged, Caldwell was relegated to the "mansions of subliterature," where his reputation resides today. This book contains more than 150 previously unpublished letters, notes, telegrams, and postcards written between 1929 and 1955, at the peak of Caldwell's popularity and influence, all extensively annotated. The Introduction assays Caldwell's significance in American popular culture and literary studies and establishes the importance of Caldwell's correspondence as a means of understanding the intentions of a man who was otherwise terse and unforthcoming about his work.

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Erskine Caldwell: Selected Letters, 1929-1955