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Poor Fool (Voices of the South)
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Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #2493574 in Books
- Published on: 1994-11
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
- 131 pages
Editorial Reviews
From Publishers Weekly
This early Caldwell novel about a boxer on the skids is one of four new entries in LSU's Voices of the South reprints series which also features The Last of the Southern Girls by Willie Morris, $11.95 -1956-3; Band of Angels by Robert Penn Warren, $12.95 -1946-6; and The Morning and the Evening by Joan Williams, $11.95 -1955-5).
Copyright 1994 Cahners Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal
Caldwell's 1930 follow-up to his premiere novel, The Bastard, features another collection of down and outers. Here palooka Blondy Niles finds himself hitting rock bottom, with death as the only way out.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Customer Reviews
Strange, strange dark and good
While this is probably not the best Caldwell book to read if you've never read Caldwell, it is gripping in a lurid, over the top, stink of death and madness kind of way. I loved it.
the poor fool &the bastard
well i havent read the book which is both stories combined The Poor Fool&The Bastard for 42 years it was a good read then and i hope i can aquire it again. Top Book but most of Erskine Caldwell books are. Thank You
grahame mccarthy
