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A Gathering of Old Men is a novel by Ernest J. Gaines published in 1983. Set on a 1970s Louisiana cane farm, the novel addresses racial discrimination in the post-civil rights era South. The novel's title characters each admit to the murder of Beau, a Cajun farmer, in an effort to protect the guilty party, and view their stand as a development ...
- Ernest J. Gaines
- 1983
Jan 1, 2001 · Ernest J. Gaines's novel A Gathering of Old Men is set on a sugarcane plantation in Louisiana in the 1970s. There, one white woman and about 18 armed, old black men go nose-to-nose with the sheriff and his inept deputy over the death of a Cajun farmer.
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- Ernest J. Gaines
May 10, 1987 · A TV movie based on a play by Charles Fuller, about a group of old black men who shoot a white racist in self defense and face the consequences. Starring Louis Gossett Jr., Richard Widmark, Holly Hunter and others.
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- Drama
- Volker Schlöndorff
- 1987-05-10
A Gathering of Old Men is a 1983 novel about a group of elderly Black men who protect a younger Black man accused of killing a white farmer in 1970s Louisiana. The novel explores themes of race, identity, and justice, and was adapted into a TV movie.
Jun 30, 1992 · A Gathering of Old Men. Paperback – June 30, 1992. by Ernest J. Gaines (Author) 4.7 678 ratings. See all formats and editions. A powerful depiction of racial tensions arising over the death of a Cajun farmer at the hands of a black man--set on a Louisiana sugarcane plantation in the 1970s.
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- Ernest J. Gaines
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- Vintage
A Gathering of Old Men takes place on the Marshall Plantation in Bayonne Louisiana. The plantation's Cajun work boss, Beau Baton, has been murdered just before the novel begins.
Oct 31, 2012 · A Gathering of Old Men. Ernest J. Gaines. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Oct 31, 2012 - Fiction - 224 pages. A powerful depiction of racial tensions arising over the death of a Cajun farmer at...
