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Ernest J. Gaines: Four Novels (Loa #383): The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman / In My Father's House / A Gathering of Old Men / A Lesson Before Dyi

Ernest J. Gaines: Four Novels (Loa #383): The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman / In My Father's House / A Gathering of Old Men / A Lesson Before Dyi

Gaines, Ernest J.
Lowe, John Wharton

Hardcover

General Fiction

Publisher Price: $42.50

ISBN10: 1598537903
ISBN13: 9781598537901
Publisher: Library of America
Published: Sep 17 2024
Pages: 847
Weight: 1.20
Height: 1.20 Width: 5.70 Depth: 8.40
Language: English
The best black writer in America (Time) joins the Library of America with a volume collecting 4 landmark novels about race and the legacy of slavery in America

Includes A Lesson Before Dying, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction and an early Oprah Book Club selection

Born in 1933, the oldest of twelve children in a family of sharecroppers in Oscar, Louisiana, Ernest J. Gaines wrote novels and stories, set on and around the former slave plantation he called home, that are modern classics--nuanced, compassionate portraits of women and men, both Black and white, caught in the vortex of race in America. He joins the Library of America with this volume gathering his four greatest novels.

  • The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (1971), the story of an elderly woman born into slavery who witnesses Reconstruction, Jim Crow, and the Civil Rights Movement. A living testament to the history, hopes, courage, and survival of her people, Miss Jane is one of the most indelible and unforgettable characters in American fiction.
  • In My Father's House (1978) finds an activist minister organizing a civil rights protest in his town when his estranged son suddenly appears on the scene, threatening to expose his family's secret past.
  • A Gathering of Old Men (1983) sees a group of elderly Black men with nothing left to lose decide to make a last stand against the racism that has defined and delimited their lives.
  • A Lesson Before Dying (1993, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction and an Oprah Book Club selection), in which a local schoolteacher attempts to help a young man falsely convicted of the murder of a white man face execution with dignity.

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