A Gathering of Old Men by Ernest J. Gaines

A Gathering of Old Men

Ernest J. Gaines

224 pages first pub 1983 (editions)

fiction classics historical emotional reflective slow-paced
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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 Souther...

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