Tragic Ground (1958)

Tragic Ground, paperback cover, 1958 thumbnail
Signet Books 661, 1957 thumbnail
Tragic Ground, paperback cover, 1958
Signet Books 661, 1957

From the back:

Nobody’s Hometown
In this pungent Erskine Caldwell novel about a collapsed boom town, penniless Southerners in a squatters’ slum fill their jobless days with casual ribaldry and haphazard lovemaking. The story of a shiftless migrant’s rowdy mixups with pretty social workers, his worries over his wild daughters, and his stubborn loyalty to his squal-id neighborhood, Tragic Ground blends the earthy humor and pathos that have made Cald-well’s books sell over 35,000,000 copies.

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