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Ernest J Gaines
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Author : Dennis Abrams
language : en
Publisher: Infobase Learning
Release Date : 2013-11
Ernest J Gaines written by Dennis Abrams and has been published by Infobase Learning this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for his 1993 novel;A Lesson Before Dying, recipient of the National Humanities Medal, and author of the classic;The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, Ernest J.
Conversations With Ernest Gaines
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Author : Ernest J. Gaines
language : en
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Release Date : 1995
Conversations With Ernest Gaines written by Ernest J. Gaines and has been published by Univ. Press of Mississippi this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Collected interviews with the award-winning African American author of A Lesson Before Dying, The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, A Gathering of Old Men, "The Sky Is Gray," and many other works
A Lesson Before Dying
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Author : Ernest J. Gaines
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2004-01-20
A Lesson Before Dying written by Ernest J. Gaines and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-01-20 with Fiction categories.
NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER • 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. "An instant classic." —Chicago Tribune A “majestic, moving novel...an instant classic, a book that will be read, discussed and taught beyond the rest of our lives" (Chicago Tribune), from the critically acclaimed author of A Gathering of Old Men and The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman. "A Lesson Before Dying reconfirms Ernest J. Gaines's position as an important American writer." —Boston Globe "Enormously moving.... Gaines unerringly evokes the place and time about which he writes." —Los Angeles Times “A quietly moving novel [that] takes us back to a place we've been before to impart a lesson for living.” —San Francisco Chronicle
A Gathering Of Old Men
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Author : Ernest J. Gaines
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2012-10-31
A Gathering Of Old Men written by Ernest J. Gaines and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-31 with Fiction categories.
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.”
The Autobiography Of Miss Jane Pittman
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Author : Ernest J. Gaines
language : en
Publisher: Bantam
Release Date : 2012-10-24
The Autobiography Of Miss Jane Pittman written by Ernest J. Gaines and has been published by Bantam this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-24 with Fiction categories.
“Grand, robust, a rich and big novel.”—Alice Walker, The New York Times Book Review “In [Jane Pittman], Ernest Gaines has created a legendary figure. . . . Gaines’s 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 [Pittman’s] voice, for her rare capacity to sort through the mess of years and things to find the one true story of it all.”—Newsweek 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.
Mozart And Leadbelly
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Author : Ernest J. Gaines
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2007-12-18
Mozart And Leadbelly written by Ernest J. Gaines and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-12-18 with Literary Collections categories.
The beloved author of the classic, best-selling novel A Lesson Before Dying shares the inspirations behind his books and his reasons for becoming a writer in this collection of stories and essays. Told in the simple and powerful prose that is a hallmark of his craft, these writings by Ernest J. Gaines faithfully evoke the sorrows and joys of rustic Southern life. From his depiction of his childhood move to California — a move that propelled him to find books that conjured the sights, smells, and locution of his native Louisiana home — to his description of the real-life murder case that gave him the idea for his masterpiece; this wonderful collection is a revelation of both man and writer.
Catherine Carmier
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Author : Ernest J. Gaines
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2012-10-31
Catherine Carmier written by Ernest J. Gaines and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-31 with Fiction categories.
A compelling debut love story set in a deceptively bucolic Louisiana countryside, where blacks, Cajuns, and whites maintain an uneasy coexistence--by the award-winning author of A Lesson Before Dying and The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman. After living in San Francisco for ten years, Jackson returns home to his benefactor, Aunt Charlotte. Surrounded by family and old friends, he discovers that his bonds to them have been irreparably rent by his absence. In the midst of his alienation from those around him, he falls in love with Catherine Carmier, setting the stage for conflicts and confrontations which are complex, tortuous, and universal in their implications.
In My Father S House
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Author : Ernest J. Gaines
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2012-10-24
In My Father S House written by Ernest J. Gaines and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-24 with Fiction categories.
A compelling novel of a man brought to reckon with his buried past... In St. Adrienne, a small black community in Louisiana, Reverend Phillip Martin—a respected minister and civil rights leader—comes face to face with the sins of his youth in the person of Robert X, a young, unkempt stranger who arrives in town for a mysterious "meeting" with the Reverend. In the confrontation between the two, the young man's secret burden explodes into the open, and Phillip Martin begins a long-neglected journey into his youth to discover how destructive his former life was, for himself and for those around him. “…on every page there's an authentic moment, or a dead-right knot of conversation, or a truer-than-true turn of phrase…”—Kirkus Reviews
The Tragedy Of Brady Sims
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Author : Ernest J. Gaines
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2017-08-29
The Tragedy Of Brady Sims written by Ernest J. Gaines and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-08-29 with Fiction categories.
A courthouse shooting leads a young reporter to uncover the long story of race and power in his small town and the relationship between the white sheriff and the black man who "whipped children" to keep order—in the final novella by the beloved Ernest J. Gaines. After Brady Sims pulls out a gun in a courtroom and shoots his own son, who has just been convicted of robbery and murder, he asks only to be allowed two hours before he'll give himself up to the sheriff. When the editor of the local newspaper asks his cub reporter to dig up a "human interest" story about Brady, he heads for the town's barbershop. It is the barbers and the regulars who hang out there who narrate with empathy, sadness, humor, and a profound understanding the life story of Brady Sims—an honorable, just, and unsparing man who with his tough love had been handed the task of keeping the black children of Bayonne, Louisiana in line to protect them from the unjust world in which they lived. And when his own son makes a fateful mistake, it is up to Brady to carry out the necessary reckoning. In the telling, we learn the story of a small southern town, divided by race, and the black community struggling to survive even as many of its inhabitants head off northwards during the Great Migration.
Voices From The Quarters
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Author : Mary Ellen Doyle
language : en
Publisher: LSU Press
Release Date : 2003-08-01
Voices From The Quarters written by Mary Ellen Doyle and has been published by LSU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-08-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title “Who will write about the way my people talk, the way my people sing?” Mary Ellen Doyle gathers and makes audible the voices arising from all of Ernest J. Gaines’s fiction to date—the indelible characters who inhabit the author’s lifelong inspirational territory: the bayous, cane fields, and plantation homes of Louisiana’s Pointe Coupee Parish. Beginning with the author’s upbringing and influences on River Lake plantation—amid the pecan trees and live oaks, the big house and the tenant quarters — this penetrating study offers close readings of Gaines’s uncollected short fiction, the early collection Bloodline, and all of his novels, including The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman and the acclaimed A Lesson Before Dying. Highlighting Gaines’s skill at translating oral tales into meaningful fictional forms, Doyle advances an original theory of first-person narration (“camcorder”) and traces its use throughout his work. Gaines’s unwavering focus on the utterances of “his people” continually strengthens his artistic development—the voices of the early stories fusing with those of the later novels—until Gaines earns a unique magisterial “voice,” an implied author who is black but speaks to universals. Using critical methods as eclectic as the book’s intended audience, and drawing from on-site research and interviews with Gaines’s relatives and friends, Doyle offers a variety of perspectives on Gaines’s fiction and its world that resonates so powerfully. Those who recognize Gaines as one of the finest southern writers of the last forty years will find here an accessible instrument to hear his voices more clearly than ever.