Publisher's Synopsis
Through brilliant paragraphs, Erskine Caldwell refines language to the extreme in order to produce a hopeless picture of the search for happiness, achieving a masterpiece that explores new modes of expression and means of narration. Halfway between a novel and poetic prose, as tender as it is overwhelming, this story chronicles the wanderings of the vagabond Alan Kent, someone whose roots are the land itself, through an indifferent world. Above all else, however, this story is a chronicle of the harsh existence in the deep South during the years of the Great Depression. "A traves de fulgurantes parrafos, Erskine Caldwell depura el lenguaje hasta el extremo para producir una vision desesperanzada de la busqueda de la felicidad, logrando una obra maestra que explora nuevos modelos expresivos y formas de narrar. A medio camino entre la novela y la prosa poetica, tanto tierna como sobrecogedora, esta historia relata los recorridos del vagabundo Alan Kent, alguien cuyas raices son la tierra misma, en un mundo indiferente. Mas que nada, sin embargo, esta historia es la cronica de la dura existencia en el profundo Sur durante los anos de la Gran Depresion."
