A Gathering of old men
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Call Number: Fiction / Gaines, Ernest
On Shelf At: Downtown Library
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Set on a Louisiana sugar cane plantation in the 1970s, the book is a powerful depiction of racial tensions arising over the death of a Cajun farmer at the hands of a black man.
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COMMUNITY REVIEWS
sticks with you submitted by AnnieKelly on July 15, 2022, 11:04pm I highly recommend this novel. It stuck with me for years, and like all of Gaines' work is beautifully and heartbreakingly written.
PUBLISHED
New York : Vintage Books, 1992.
Year Published: 1992
Description: 213 pages ; 21 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
READING LEVEL
Lexile: 650
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
0679738908
SUBJECTS
African American farmers -- Fiction.
Louisiana -- Fiction.
Mystery fiction.