Description: In this appealing collection of fourteen interrelated stories, twelve-year-old William Stroup recounts the ludicrous predicaments and often self-imposed hardships his family endures. Georgia Boy was a special book to Caldwell, and its humor is less in the service of social criticism than his other works.
Brief description: ERSKINE CALDWELL (1903-1987) was born in Newnan, Georgia. He became one of America's most widely read, prolific, and critically debated writers, with a literary output of more than sixty titles. At the time of his death, Caldwell's books had sold eighty million copies worldwide in more than forty languages. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1984.
Review Quotes:
Georgia Boy might well have been subtitled Life with Father on the Tobacco Road. . . . This reviewer would have to go back to Huck Finn to find a more companionable storyteller than Pa Stroup's William.
--New York Times Book Review