A gathering of old men

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Gaines, Ernest J.

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Vintage Contemporaries

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IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 9

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Pub. Date	Edition	Publisher	Physical Desc.	Availability
1992, c1983.	1st Vintage Contemporaries ed.	Vintage Books,	213 p. ; 21 cm.	On Shelf Franklin FICTION Gaines, E.	More Info Place Hold

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2018.	Hoopla	Unabridged.	Recorded Books, Inc.,	1 online resource (1 audio file (7hr., 38 min.)) : digital.	Available Online Online Hoopla Collection	More Info Check Out Hoopla

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2012	OverDrive	Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group	Available Online 1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list. Online OverDrive Collection	More Info Check Out OverDrive

Description

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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Grouping Language	English (eng)
Last Grouping Update	2021-01-17 03:11:12AM
Last Indexed	2021-01-17 03:35:06AM
Novelist Primary ISBN	9780394514680

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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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Vintage Contemporaries

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Vintage Contemporaries|

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African American farmers -- Louisiana -- Fiction
African Americans -- Fiction
Large type books
Louisiana -- Fiction
Racism -- Louisiana -- Fiction

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A gathering of old men

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A Gathering of Old Men
A gathering of old men / Ernest J. Gaines
A gathering of old men [electronic resource] / Ernest J. Gaines
A gathering of old men [text (large print)] / Ernest J. Gaines

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A gathering of old men

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African American Fiction
African American farmers
African Americans
Fiction
Historical Fiction
Mystery
Racism