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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.
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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."--"Booklist
"A fine novel...there is a denouement that will shock and move readers as much as it does the characters."--"Philadelphia Inquirer
"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."--"Booklist
"A fine novel...there is a denouement that will shock and move readers as much as it does the characters."--"Philadelphia Inquirer
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- PublisherSerpents Tail
- Publication date2000
- ISBN 10 1852426608
- ISBN 13 9781852426606
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages224
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