THIS VERY EARTH (254 pp.)Erskine Caldwell Duel!, Sloan & Pearce ($2.75).
Erskine Caldwell, chronicler of the seamy side of the Southern woes, is the leading bestseller-novelist in the world.* Quarter reprints of his God's Little Acre, Tobacco Road, Trouble in July and others have pushed the sales of his books above 9,000,000 copies. Perhaps some of his appeal is to hunters of the salacious: it is possible to read his novels as if they were extended dirty jokes. But the Caldwell of these early novels and stories had real talent besides.
He wrote...
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