num_pages: 224
description: A sheriff is summoned to a Louisiana sugar plantation, where he finds one white woman, about 18 old black men, all carrying shotguns, and one dead Cajun farmer. The sheriff is sure he knows who has killed the Cajun, but threats and violence fail to change their stories.
language: English
title: A Gathering of Old Men
titlecomplete: A Gathering of Old Men
characters: Horace "Sharp" Thompson, Candy Marshall, Robert "Chimley" Louis Stevenson Banks, Grant "Cherry" Bello, Albert "Rooster" Jackson, Sheriff Mapes, Gil Boutan, Sidney "Coot" Brooks, Luke Will, Beau Boutan, Janice "Janey" Robinson, Louis "Lou Dimes" Alfred Dimoulin, Jacques "Tee Jack" Thibeaux, Thomas "Sully" Vincent Sullivan, George "Snookum" Eliot, Jr., Cyril "Clatoo" Robillard, Joseph "Rufe" Seaberry, Mathu, Matthew "Matt" Lincoln Brown
genres: Historical, Literature, Classics, School, Literary Fiction, African American, Southern, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Race
ratings_count: 6295
places: Louisiana
awards: awardedAt: 410256000000
name: California Book Award
category: Fiction (Silver)
publisher: Serpents Tail