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
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.
Lata czterdzieste XX wieku, południe Stanów Zjednoczonych. Czarnoskóry chłopak Jefferson zostaje niewinnie oskarżony o zabicie białego właściciela sklepu i skazany na śmierć.
