Poor Fool [Hardcover]

Erskine Caldwell (Author), Alexander Couard (Illustrator)

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.

--This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 188 pages
• Publisher: Rariora Press; 1st edition (1930)
• Language: English
• ASIN: B00085H9JW
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,619,430 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Strange, strange dark and good, January 7, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Poor Fool (Voices of the South) (Paperback)

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.

1 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars the poor fool &the bastard, December 15, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Poor Fool (Voices of the South) (Paperback)

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