A Gathering of Old Men
by Ernest Gaines
Publication Date: Jun 30, 1992
List Price: $14.00
Format: Paperback, 213 pages
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9780679738909
Imprint: Vintage Books
Publisher: Penguin Random House
Parent Company: Bertelsmann
Paperback Description:
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
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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