A Gathering of Old Men
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781852426606 (1852426608)
Publish date: 2000
Publisher: Serpent's Tail
Pages no: 224
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 ...