Ernest Gaines reads excerpts from A Gathering of Old Men
Ernest J. Gaines
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
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· 18 ratings · 226 pages · Published: 09 Apr 1983
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."
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