God's Little Acre is a 1933 novel by Erskine Caldwell about a dysfunctional farming family in South Carolina obsessed with sex and wealth. The novel's sexual themes were so controversial that the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice asked a New York state court to censor it. The novel was made into a film of the same name in 1958.
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“I will take a crowbar
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