A Gathering of Old Men

A Gathering of Old Men

By Ernest J. Gaines

Pages

224

Rating

4.09

Year

1983

FictionHistorical FictionClassicsSouthernAfrican AmericanSchool

Description

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, building to a climax that is as stunning as it is inevitable.

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