A Gathering of Old Men
A Gathering of Old Men
Gaines, Ernest J.
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Random House Adult
Just the Series: Vintage Contemporaries   

Series and Publisher: Vintage Contemporaries   

Annotation: When a white man in rural Louisiana is murdered, all the local black men claim responsibility for the murder.
Genre: [Classics]
 
Reviews: 3
Catalog Number: #114403
Format: Perma-Bound Edition
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Publisher: Random House Adult
Copyright Date: 1983
Edition Date: 1992 Release Date: 06/30/92
Pages: 213 pages
ISBN: Publisher: 0-679-73890-8 Perma-Bound: 0-8000-5136-X
ISBN 13: Publisher: 978-0-679-73890-9 Perma-Bound: 978-0-8000-5136-5
Dewey: Fic
Dimensions: 21 cm.
Subject Heading:
African Americans. Fiction.
Prejudices. Fiction.
Louisiana. Fiction.
Language: English
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Word Count: 64,423
Reading Level: 4.4
Interest Level: 9+
Accelerated Reader: reading level: 4.4 / points: 9.0 / quiz: 15838 / grade: Upper Grades
Reading Counts!: reading level:6.9 / points:10.0 / quiz:Q04348
Lexile: 650L

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.”

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