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Notes by the Way
Marshall, Margaret | December 26, 1942 issue

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According to the author, the writer Erskine Caldwell is one of our most talented writers of fiction. He came up as a "natural" storyteller, who wrote with a seemingly instinctive, strict, and essentially poetic economy of expression wonderfully suited to his material-which he obviously knew to the point of saturation. The book "Tobacco Road" was a tall tale blankly told, its humor and its subject matter were deeply indigenous, it was very well turned. It was limited, however, as art in the broad sense.

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CALDWELL, Erskine; TOBACCO Road (Book); LITERATURE; AUTHORS; STORYTELLERS; WIT & humor
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