The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman and Related Readings (Glencoe Literature Library)

The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman and Related Readings (Glencoe Literature Library)

Gaines, Ernest J.

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Glencoe Literature Library

Gl SG Auto/Ms Jane Pitman

“This majestic, moving novel is an instant classic, a book that will be read, discussed and taught beyond the rest of our lives.”—Chicago Tribune Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, A Lesson Before Dying is a deep and compassionate novel about a young man who returns to 1940s Cajun country to visit a black youth on death row for a crime he didn't commit. Together they come to understand the heroism of resisting. From the critically acclaimed author of A Gathering of Old Men and The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman.

A Lesson Before Dying (Oprah's Book Club)

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Vintage

The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman

The Autobiography Of Miss Jane Pittman

"This is a novel in the guise of the  tape-recorded recollections of a black woman who has  lived 110 years, who has been both a slave and a  witness to the black militancy of the 1960's. In this  woman Ernest Gaines has created a legendary figure,  a woman equipped to stand beside William  Faulkner's Dilsey in The Sound And The  Fury." Miss Jane Pittman, like Dilsey, has  'endured,' has seen almost everything and foretold the  rest. Gaines' novel brings to mind other  great works The Odyssey for the way  his heroine's travels manage to summarize the  American history of her race, and Huckleberry  Finn for the clarity of her voice, for  her rare capacity to sort through the mess of years  and things to find the one true story in it all."  -- Geoffrey Wolff, Newsweek."Stunning. I know of no  black novel about the South  that excludes quite the same refreshing mix of wit  and wrath, imagination and indignation, misery and  poetry. And I can recall no more memorable female  character in Southern fiction since Lena of  Faulkner's Light In August than Miss  Jane Pittman." -- Josh Greenfeld,  LifeFrom the Paperback edition.

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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.

Dial Press Trade Paperback

Five stories skillfully portray the social and moral predicaments of the Negro in the rural South

Bloodline (Norton Library ; N798)

W.W. Norton & Co., Inc.

A Black, who seeks revenge against his oppressive white employers, is doomed when he breaks the most honored rule of love in the South

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Alfred.A. Knopf

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.

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The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman and Related Readings (Glencoe Literature Library)

Gl SG Auto/Ms Jane Pitman

A Lesson Before Dying (Oprah's Book Club)

The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman

The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman

Bloodline (Norton Library ; N798)

Of Love and Dust

In My Father's House

A Gathering of Old Men

A Gathering of Old Men