Research Catalog

Title

Stories from Georgia boy, and, Maud Island / by Erskine Caldwell.

Author

Caldwell, Erskine, 1903-1987

Publication

New York : Avon, c1947.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Caldwell, Erskine, 1903-1987.
• Mayers, George H., 1920-1987

Description

127 p.; 17 cm.

Summary

In this collection of interrelated stories, twelve-year-old William Stroup recounts the ludicrous predicaments and often self-imposed hardships his family endures. Playing on the tension between his hardworking, sensible mother and his disarmingly likable but shiftless and philandering father, William tells of Pa's flirtation with a widow, his swapping match with a band of gypsies, his battle of wits with a traveling silk-tie saleswoman, and his get-rich-quick schemes based on selling Ma's old love letters and collecting scrap iron.

Alternative Title

• Georgia boy.
• Maud Island.
• Georgia boy

Subjects

• Pulp fiction
• Pulp literature, American
• Domestic fiction
• Country life > Georgia > Fiction
• Georgia > Social life and customs > Fiction

Genre/Form

• Domestic fiction.
• Pulp literature, American.
• Pulp fiction.

Note

• Avon, 134.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

My old man's baling machine -- The day we rang the bell for Preacher Hawshaw -- Handsome Brown and the aggavating goats -- My old man and the grass widow -- The time Ma spent the day at Aunt Bessie's -- Handsome Brown and the shirt-tail woodpeckers -- My old man and the gypsy queen -- The time Handsome Brown ran away -- My old man and pretty Sooky -- Handsome Brown's day off -- My old man's political appointment -- Maud Island.

OCLC

14928718

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library