Bibliograph

In search of Bisco, Erskine Caldwell

Type

Label

In search of Bisco, Erskine Caldwell

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

In search of Bisco

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Erskine Caldwell

Summary

In this travelogue and memoir, groundbreaking novelist Erskine Caldwell looks back at a life lived in the troubled South Five decades removed from his own Southern childhood, novelist Erskine Caldwell sets out on a journey to find an old friend-a friend lost to him through the culture of segregation. As Caldwell follows a trail through Georgia, South Carolina, and much of the Deep South in search of his black childhood friend Bisco, his interviews with white and black Americans expose a range of attitudes that are tragic, if not surprising. Published first in the mid-1960s just as the South was undergoing a radical transformation by freedom marches and sit-ins, In Search of Bisco offers a heartfelt account of the civil rights movement by one of the region's fiercest critics and most prominent sons. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Erskine Caldwell including rare photos and never-before-seen documents courtesy of the Dartmouth College Library

Target audience

adult

Classification