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Book Club Kit: A gathering of old men (10 copies) Cover Image Book Book

Bo ok Club Kit: A gathering of old men (10 copies)

Gaines, Ernest J. 1933-2019 (Author).

Summary: Louisiana, in the 1970s. A sheriff is summoned to a sugarcane plantation, and 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. 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. As they wait for a lynch mob that the dead man's father is sure to launch; the old black men experience their first taste of power and pride. -- adapted from back cover.

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  • ISBN: 9780679738909 (paperback)
  • ISBN: 0679738908 (paperback)
  • ISBN: 9780606010276
  • ISBN: 0606010270
  • ISBN: 9780881035612
  • ISBN: 0881035610
  • ISBN: 9780812469240
  • ISBN: 0812469240
  • Physical Description: print
    213 pages ; 21 cm.
  • Edition: 1st Vintage Contemporaries ed.
  • Publisher: New York : Vintage Books, 1992.

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APLS Book Club Kit, 10 copies

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Subject: African American farmers Fiction
Louisiana Fiction
Genre: Detective and mystery stories.
Mystery fiction.
Detective and mystery fiction.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at State Library of Alabama.

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APLS BOOK CLUB 813.54 GAI 1992 31291002972261 BOOK CLUB Available -
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