A Gathering of Old Men
Set on a Louisiana sugarcane plantation in the 1970s, A Gathering of Old Men is a powerful depiction of racial tensions arising over the death of a Cajun farmer at the hands of a black man. "Poignant, powerful, earthy...a novel of Southern racial confrontation in which a group of elderly black...
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Set on a Louisiana sugarcane plantation in the 1970s, A Gathering of Old Men is a powerful depiction of racial tensions arising over the death of a Cajun farmer at the hands of a black man. "Poignant, powerful, earthy...a novel of Southern racial confrontation in which a group of elderly black men band together against whites who seek vengeance for the murder of one of their own."--Booklist"A fine novel...there is a denouement that will shock and move readers as much as it does the characters."--Philadelphia Inquirer
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780679738909 (0679738908)
ASIN: 679738908
Publish date: June 30th 1992
Publisher: Vintage
Pages no: 214
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Novels,
Academic,
School,
Literature,
Cultural,
Book Club,
American,
Historical Fiction,
Literary Fiction,
African American,
Southern
Another amazing historical fiction, based off of the brutalities of racism between the blacks and the whites back then.. This plot was very well-organized!
After the second time I read this book, I noticed that Ernest Gaines doesn't care to depict the protagonists in his books as particularly admirable, noble, virtuous, etc. In fact he tends to go the other way and depict them as often crude and even disgusting in their appearance and habits. I always ...
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