Five stories by Ernest J. Gaines, author of Catherine Carmier, Of Love and Dust, and The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman. Mr. Gaines is a winner of the Joseph Henry Jackson Award and a Wallace Stegner Creative Writing Fellowship and has been widely published in magazines and anthologies.
"Mr. Gaines writes with notable control, a superb ear for speech. . . . His stories deal with tradition, perplexity and incipient rebellion on a decaying Louisiana plantation. . . . [his] understanding of the scene is brilliantly subtle and complex." —Laurence Lafore, New York Times Book Review
"They are strong stories. . . .Gaines knows how to create living characters and to set them against a rich and vivid background. ... If [his novels] are anywhere near as good as the stories, he is one of the young writers--he was born in 1933--who will help to form the American literature of the future." —Granville Hicks, Saturday Review
"Ernest J. Gaines's stories of the Southern rural Negro ring true. He has a marvelous ear for speech rhythms, content, and dialect; a deep knowledge of the people, black and white, of the region; and a rich fund of humor, compassion, and understanding." —Library Journal
CONTENTS
1. A Long Day in November
2. The Sky is Gray
3. Three Men
4. Bloodline
5. Just Like a Tree
Cover design by Jim Gaydos
- Autor: Ernest J. Gaines
- Kategoria: literatura piękna
- Język: angielski
- ISBN: 0393007987
- Data wydania: 1976-01-01
- Liczba stron: 249
- Ocena: 0,0
- Wydawnictwo: W. W. Norton & Company
