Bettie's Books

home audio- John MacDonald, Narrator- Unabridged- 4 tapes = 5 Hrs 17 Mins- Blackstone Audio Books- 1995Blurb -Tobacco Road is set in Augusta, Georgia during the worst years of the Great Depression. It depicts a family of poor white tenant farmers, the Lesters, as one of the many small Southern cotton farmers estranged by the industrialization of production and the migration into cities. The main character of the novel is Jeeter Lester, an ignorant and sinful man who is redeemed by his love of the land and his faith in the fertility and promise of soil.Not for me at this time