Gathering of Old Men (A)
by Ernest GainesAVAILABILITY: Usually ships within 2-5 days
Publication Date: 1992
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Binding: Paperback
Topics: Fiction, Race & Civil Rights, United States
Description: 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.
Review(s): "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
"A fine novel...there is a denouement that will shock and move readers as much as it does the characters." - Philadelphia Inquirer