Catherine Carmier
By: [by] Ernest J. Gaines.
Publisher: Chatham Bookseller
Published: 1972
Place of publication: Chatham, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
Subjects: Race relations -- Fiction; Louisiana -- Fiction
Description: Catherine Carmier is a compelling love story set in a deceptively bucolic Louisiana countryside, where blacks, Cajuns, and whites maintain an uneasy coexistence. After living in San Francisco for ten years, Jackson returns home to his benefactor, Aunt Charlotte. Surrounded by family and old friends, he discovers that his bonds to them have been irreparably rent by his absence. In the midst of his alienation from those around him, he falls in love with Catherine Carmier, setting the stage for conflicts and confrontations which are complex, tortuous, and universal in their implications.