The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman

Literature & Fiction

Ernest J.Gaines

Literary

Bantam]

A Lesson Before Dying

6 cassettes / approx. 8 hours Unabridged Read by Jay Long Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction "A Lesson Before Dying reconfirms Ernest J. Gaines's position as an important American writer." --Boston Globe A Lesson Before Dying is set in a small Cajun community in the late 1940s. Jefferson, a young black man, is an unwitting party to a liquor store shootout in which three men are killed; the only survivor, he is convicted of murder and sentenced to death. Grant Wiggins, who left his hometown for the university, has returned to the plantation school to teach. As he struggles with his decision whether to stay or escape to another state, his aunt and Jefferson's godmother persuade him to visit Jefferson in his cell and impart his learning and his pride to Jefferson before his death. In the end, the two men forge a bond as they both come to understand the simple heroism of resisting -- and defying -- the unexpected. Ernest J.. Gaines brings to this novel the same rich sense of place, the same deep understanding of the human psyche, and the same compassion for a people and their struggle that have informed his previous, highly praised works of fiction. "Enormously moving . . . Gaines unerringly evokes the place and time about which he writes." -- Los Angeles Times

United States

Random House Audio |

Miss Jane Pittman. She is one of the most unforgettable heroines in American fiction, a woman whose life has come to symbolize the struggle for freedom, dignity, and justice. Ernest J. Gaines’s now-classic novel—written as an autobiography—spans one hundred years of Miss Jane’s remarkable life, from her childhood as a slave on a Louisiana plantation to the Civil Rights era of the 1960s. It is a story of courage and survival, history, bigotry, and hope—as seen through the eyes of a woman who lived through it all. A historical tour de force, a triumph of fiction, Miss Jane’s eloquent narrative brings to life an important story of race in America—and stands as a landmark work for our time.

The Dial Press

The author's first book was "The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman"this book is a novel about a small, rural black community in the deep South, in a moment not long past. It is about a minister, a civl rights leader , a man of substance and stature, a devoted husband and father who is suddenly brought to face to face with the sins of his youth.

In My Father's House

W.W.Norton

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 "A fine novel...there is a denouement that will shock and move readers as much as it does the characters."--Philadelphia Inquirer From the Trade Paperback edition.

Gathering of Old Men (Black Swan)

Contemporary

Black Swan.

The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman [mass_market] Ernest J. Gaines [Jan 01, 1979]

From the author of A Gathering of Old Men and The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman comes a deep and compassionate novel. A young man who returns to 1940s Cajun country to teach visits a black youth on death row for a crime he didn't commit. Together they come to understand the heroism of resisting.

KNOPF

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.”

A Gathering of Old Men

Vintage

Hodder Headline Australia

Fine short story set in the black south

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The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman

A Lesson Before Dying

The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman

In My Father's House

Gathering of Old Men (Black Swan)

The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman

A Lesson Before Dying

A Gathering of Old Men

A Lesson Before Dying

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