Archives for July 2007
Erskine Caldwell: Tobacco Road
Written in 1932 and set during the Great Depression of that time, Erskine Caldwell’s Tobacco Road blesses us with a look into the hearts and minds of white sharecroppers in Georgia. And at a time when there’s little to be… continue reading »
Jill Dawson: Watch Me Disappear
Jill Dawson’s Watch Me Disappear takes as its backdrop the Cambridgeshire Fens around the time of the Soham murders, dropping references in all but name. That the narrator, Tina Humber, should be there is purely coincidental, as she’s attending her… continue reading »