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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."
WHY WE PICKED IT
Because this novel brings together the voices of a rural Louisiana community, offering a poignant meditation on dignity, memory, and the struggle for justice in the face of deep-seated prejudice.
DETAILS:
- Author: Ernest J. Gaines
- Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Publication date: June 30, 1992
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN/EAN: 0679738908 / 9780679738909
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