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# Tobacco Road Paperback – 31 Jan. 2014

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    This is quote a poorly printed copy.  There are numerous typos and random punctuation.
  

*by D***D on Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 10 February 2023*

The novel is engrossing, pacey, compelling and tragi-comic.  It's an engaging, potentially depressing story of poor sharecroppers in the 30s, with large doses of black humour to lift the mood.There are numerous mis-spellings, typos and punctuation mistakes in this printed version.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    What do people need?
  

*by M***S on Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 3 June 2017*

Tobacco Road is the story of the Lesters, a family of sharecroppers living through a kind of end-stage poverty in 1930s America.  It’s an incredibly harsh book.  The humorous touches during the worst moments only provide the kind of light relief that casts a dark shadow.So what to make of it.  I wondered if this was an expose book, helping readers become aware of the reality of extreme poverty.  There’s probably something in that. I also wondered if the book was a morality tale showing what happens if you’re lazy and refuse to move with the times.  There’s probably something in that too.  Overall, however, I thought this was a book reflecting on the vagaries of human need.Well-fed psychologists in fancy universities would say that there is a hierarchy of need.  People must meet their basic physical needs first, for food, shelter and reproduction.  Ever more rarefied needs come later as the demands of each succeeding level are met.  Things are not that simple in Tobacco Road.  The story appears to exist right at the bottom of the hierarchy of need.  The Lesters are starving and need food.  Their shelter is falling apart.  However, it is only a short jump between starvation and spiritual concerns.  Jeeter Lester eats a few stolen turnips.  As soon as his hunger pangs have settled, he is turning to spiritual justifications for his actions.  Bessie, the bizarre preacher, eats those same stolen turnips while fulminating in fiery religious terms against the sin of theft.  So what could I make of that?  The desperate theft of food and comforts of religion go hand in hand.  Religion is like a turnip.There are other bizarre jumps around the hierarchy of need.  While reproduction is usually right there at the basic level, we watch Lov trying to ignore an ugly girl who is more than keen to give him as many babies as he likes. He is ensnared by the airy charms of her younger sister who has pretty hair, but won't let Lov near her.  There are also strange judgements about priorities when fate occasionally brings opportunity. Bessie spends her entire inheritance of eight hundred dollars on a luxurious car, when that money could have saved the family if she had spent it on the necessities of farming.  Similarly the daughters of the Lester family flee to the near-by city of Augusta not to earn money for food, but because they are attracted by the prospect of fashionable clothes.  Then there is Jeeter himself, who puts the need to stay working his land before anything, even eating.So what do people need in Tobacco Road?  What is the answer to their problems?  Every time I tried to answer that question, put a simple moral on the story, the book would wriggle away and say something else.In the end, I kept coming back to the blackjack tree.  Throughout the book, Jeeter is trying to sell the one thing that grows on his exhausted land, the unwanted, unworkable, unburnable, iron-hard wood of the blackjack tree: “a stunted variety of oak that used its sap in toughening the fibres instead of growing new layers and expanding the old, as other trees did.” Clearly, Jeeter is like the blackjack tree.  He does not grow new layers or expand the old.  He is just as useless and unworkable.  Nevertheless, the blackjack is enduring, and in the end it will probably be the last thing standing.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Read it if you dare
  

*by B***B on Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 19 March 2016*

A novel about poor white farmers in the America South of the 1930's.Trigger warning: IT IS NOT STEINBECK. One of the most depressing and uncomfortable books I've ever read. After about half way through I didn't want to pick it up again, because I knew I would be reading another appalling, tragic event in the lives of the hapless heroes.The novel starts with a man going to his father in law to complain that his thirteen year old wife won't have sex with him. He has walked seven miles carrying a sack of turnips, and by the end of the episode the father in law has stolen the turnips and has run off to the woods to eat them. Meanwhile the man with the sack doesn't care, because he's having sex in the road with the thief's elder daughter.At that point, I thought I was getting a picaresque romp, but I was wrong.It didn't get easier, and there is no humour at all in this, just ignorance, poverty and stupidity.I recommend it, but don't complain to me if it makes you feel bad.

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