God’s Little Acre
novel by Caldwell
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discussed in biography
- In Erskine Caldwell
…on Tobacco Road and on God’s Little Acre (1933), another best-selling novel featuring a cast of hopelessly poor and degenerate whites in the rural South. Among his other more important works are Trouble in July (1940); the episodic narrative Georgia Boy (1943), a well-told story of boyhood; the literary autobiography…
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film adaptation
- In Anthony Mann: The 1950s: westerns of Anthony Mann
Mann’s version of Erskine Caldwell’s best seller God’s Little Acre (1958) was strengthened by the presence of Ryan and Ray, although much of the flavour of the funny but profane novel was leached out to satisfy the censors. There were no such compromises in Man of the West (1958), a…
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