A Gathering of Old Men by Gaines, Ernest J.

A Gathering of Old Men

A powerful depiction of racial tensions arising over the death of a Cajun farmer at the hands...
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Author: Ernest J. Gaines
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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A Gathering of Old Men by Gaines, Ernest J.

A Gathering of Old Men

$26.01

A Gathering of Old Men

$26.01
Author: Ernest J. Gaines
Format: Paperback
Language: English
A powerful depiction of racial tensions arising over the death of a Cajun farmer at the hands of a black man--set on a Louisiana sugarcane plantation in the 1970s.

The Village Voice called A Gathering of Old Men "the best-written novel on Southern race relations in over a decade."

Author: Ernest J. Gaines
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 06/30/1992
Pages: 226
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.10w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9780679738909

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 4.4
Point Value: 9
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 15838 / Gathering of Old Men

About the Author
Ernest Gaines was born on a plantation in Pointe Coupée Parish near New Roads, Louisiana, which is the Bayonne of all his fictional works. He is writer-in-residence emeritus at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. In 1993 Gaines received the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellowship for his lifetime achievements. In 1996 he was named a Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, one of France's highest decorations. He and his wife, Dianne, live in Oscar, Louisiana.

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