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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
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 06/30/1992
Series: Vintage Contemporaries
Pages: 224
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.
Author: Ernest J. Gaines
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 06/30/1992
Series: Vintage Contemporaries
Pages: 224
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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