A Sizzling Classic of Lust and Tragedy A REAL BASTARD! His mother gave birth to him on a hot August day in her carny tent. She cursed through her labor and would have killed the baby if the roustabouts hadn't tied her down. Until he ran away, Gene lived in a shanty with an old black woman. He knew his mother was a harlot, but he didn't know or care who his father was. No one knew...there had been too many men. He took love where he found it - at the carnival, the jail, the mill - and he killed when he felt like it.
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Erskine Preston Caldwell was an American author. His writings about poverty, racism and social problems in his native South won him critical acclaim, but they also made him controversial among fellow Southerners of the time who felt he was holding the region up to ridicule. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erskine\_...
