Poor Fool

Erskine Caldwell. Louisiana State University Press, $17.95 (131pp) ISBN 978-0-8071-1947-1

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).

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