The autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman / Ernest J. Gaines.
Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Bantam Dell, 2009, c1971.Edition: Dial Press trade pbk. edDescription: x, 259 p. : ill. ; 21 cmISBN:- 0385342780 (pbk.)
- 9780385342780 (pbk.)
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Adult Book | Main Library | Fiction | Gaines, Ernest J | Available | 33111005563560 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
"Grand, robust, a rich and big novel."--Alice Walker, The New York Times Book Review
"In [Jane Pittman], Ernest Gaines has created a legendary figure. . . . Gaines's novel brings to mind other great works: The Odyssey , for the way his heroine's travels manage to summarize the American history of her race, and Huckleberry Finn, for the clarity of [Pittman's] voice, for her rare capacity to sort through the mess of years and things to find the one true story of it all."-- Newsweek
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.
"Dial Press hardcover edition published April 1971." -- T.p. verso.
Story of a black lady born into slavery on a Louisiana plantation, freed at the end of the Civil War, who lives for one-hundred more years.