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Lot of 12 A Gathering of Old Men by Gaines Class Teacher Set Guided Reading Book
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“Good to very good pre-owned condition, clean of writing”
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A book that has been read but is in excellent condition. No obvious damage to the cover, with the dust jacket included for hard covers. No missing or damaged pages, no creases or tears, and no underlining/highlighting of text or writing in the margins. May be very minimal identifying marks on the inside cover. Very minimal wear and tear.
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller Notes
- “Good to very good pre-owned condition, clean of writing”
- Features
- Reprint
- ISBN
- 9780679738909
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0679738908
ISBN-13
9780679738909
eBay Product ID (ePID)
764527
Product Key Features
Book Title
Gathering of Old Men
Number of Pages
224 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
1992
Topic
African American / General, Crime, African American / Historical, General, Historical
Genre
Fiction
Book Series
Vintage Contemporaries Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.6 in
Item Weight
9.1 Oz
Item Length
8 in
Item Width
5.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
91-058064
Reviews
"Gaines knows how to tell a story. . . . [He writes] with humor, a strong sense of drama and a compassionate understanding of people who find themselves in opposing positions." --Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post "Poignant, powerful, earthy . . . a novel of Southern racial confrontation in which a group of elderly black men band together against whites who seek vengeance for the murder of one of their own." -- Booklist "A fine novel . . . there is a denouement that will shock and move readers as much as it does the characters." -- Philadelphia Inquirer "Early in this eloquent novel . . . a sheriff is summoned to a sugarcane plantation, where he finds one young white woman, about eighteen old black men, and one dead Cajun farmer. The sheriff is sure he knows who killed the Cajun--although each of the men is toting a shotgun only one of them could hit a barn door--but threats and slaps fail to change their stories. Each one claims guilt, and all but one promise to provoke a riot at the courthouse if the sheriff tries to make an arrest. In the meantime, they wait for a lynch mob that the dead man's father--like the son, a notorious brute--is sure to launch. . . . Before it is over, everyone involved has been surprised by something; the old black men not least of all, by their first taste of power and pride." -- The New Yorker "A fine novel . . . there is a denouement that will shock and move readers as much as it does the characters, and a multiplicity of themes that raises a simple tale to grand signfiicance." --David Bradley, Philadelphia Inquirer
TitleLeading
A
Dewey Edition
21
Dewey Decimal
813.5/4
Synopsis
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."
LC Classification Number
PS3557.A355
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