num_pages: 53
description: Following a brief introduction to his life and work, author Ernest Gaines reads excerpts from his novel A gathering of old men, which deals with the Black tenant farmers in a rural area east of Baton Rouge, La. He introduces the characters Snookum, Janey, Miss Merle, and Rufe in this reading.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. "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."
language: English
title: Ernest Gaines reads excerpts from A Gathering of Old Men
titlecomplete: Ernest Gaines reads excerpts from A Gathering of Old Men
characters: Grant "Cherry" Bello, Cyril "Clatoo" Robillard, Sidney "Coot" Brooks, Matthew "Matt" Lincoln Brown, Sheriff Mapes, Janice "Janey" Robinson, Mathu, Robert "Chimley" Louis Stevenson Banks, George "Snookum" Eliot, Jr., Thomas "Sully" Vincent Sullivan, Albert "Rooster" Jackson, Louis "Lou Dimes" Alfred Dimoulin, Luke Will, Beau Boutan, Candy Marshall, Gil Boutan, Joseph "Rufe" Seaberry, Horace "Sharp" Thompson, Jacques "Tee Jack" Thibeaux
genres: Historical Fiction, Southern, Historical, Literary Fiction, School, Literature, Race, African American, Classics, Fiction
ratings_count: 6295
places: Louisiana
awards: awardedAt: 410256000000
name: California Book Award
category: Fiction (Silver)
publisher: Amer Audio Prose Library Inc