A Gathering of Old Men |
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| Authors: | Gaines, Ernest J. |
| Publisher: | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group |
| BISAC/Subject: | FIC014000, FIC050000, FIC049040 |
| ISBN: | 9780307830388, Related ISBNs: 0307830381, 0394514688, 0394725913, 0679738908, 0736611843 |
| Classification: | Fiction |
| Number of pages: | 224, |
| Audience: | General/trade |
Synopsis: 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.”
The Village Voice called A Gathering of Old Men “the best-written novel on Southern race relations in over a decade.”
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