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| Author | : Ernest J. Gaines |
| File Size | : 47,8 Mb |
| Publisher | : Vintage |
| Language | : English |
| Release Date | : 31 October 2012 |
| ISBN | : 9780307830388 |
| Pages | : 224 pages |
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.”
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.”
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A poor African American boy and his mother experience both discrimination and kindness during a trip to town to see the dentist.
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