Lata czterdzieste XX wieku, południe Stanów Zjednoczonych. Czarnoskóry chłopak Jefferson zostaje niewinnie oskarżony o zabicie białego właściciela sklepu i skazany na śmierć.
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.
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. "Early in this eloquent novel...a sheriff is summoned to a sugarcane plantation, where he finds one young
