A gathering of old men
Gaines, Ernest J. , 1933-
A gathering of old men / Ernest J. Gaines - 1st ed. - New York : Knopf , 1983. - 213 p. ; 22 cm.
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."-- Booklist
9780679738909
82049000
African Americans----Fiction
Louisiana----Fiction
Detective and mystery stories
PS3557.A355 / G3 1983
FIC GAI
A gathering of old men / Ernest J. Gaines - 1st ed. - New York : Knopf , 1983. - 213 p. ; 22 cm.
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."-- Booklist
9780679738909
82049000
African Americans----Fiction
Louisiana----Fiction
Detective and mystery stories
PS3557.A355 / G3 1983
FIC GAI