num_pages: 384
description: Miss Jane Pittman. She is one of the most unforgettable heroines in American fiction, a woman whose life has come to symbolize the struggle for freedom, dignity, and justice. Ernest J. Gaines’s now-classic novel—written as an autobiography—spans one hundred years of Miss Jane’s remarkable life, from her childhood as a slave on a Louisiana plantation to the Civil Rights era of the 1960s. It is a story of courage and survival, history, bigotry, and hope—as seen through the eyes of a woman who lived through it all. A historical tour de force, a triumph of fiction, Miss Jane’s eloquent narrative brings to life an important story of race in America—and stands as a landmark work for our time.
language: English
title: Holt McDougal Library, High School with Connections: Individual Reader the Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman 1998
titlecomplete: Holt McDougal Library, High School with Connections: Individual Reader the Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman 1998
genres: Classics, Historical, Southern, Race, African American, School, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Fiction, African American Literature
ratings_count: 13603
awards: awardedAt: 31564800000
name: California Book Award
category: Fiction (Silver)
publisher: MCDOUGAL LITTEL