by Erskine Caldwell · Editions Gallimard · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782070377732
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«Terre tragique» is the novel by Erskine Caldwell, published by Editions Gallimard in paperback (215 pages, in French).
The novel portrays life in Poor Boy, a degraded suburb on the outskirts of an American city, where families marked by unemployment, poverty and alcohol cling to an anarchic freedom. The plot follows the tragicomic adventure of Spence and Maud and the attempt of a naive social worker to rescue them.
Complete text edition in the Folio collection, with French translation by Maurice-Edgar Coindreau. Work originally published in English.
Will appeal to those seeking novels with a marginal setting and tragicomic tone, with a stark vision of urban poverty.
Erskine Preston Caldwell was an American novelist and short story writer. His writings about poverty, racism and social problems in his native Southern United States, in novels such as Tobacco Road (1932) and God's Little Acre (1933), won him critical acclaim.
