The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman - Softcover

Gaines, Ernest J.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0385342780 ISBN 13: 9780385342780

Verlag: Dial Press Trade Paperback, 2009

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Book by Gaines Ernest J

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"Stunning. I know of no black novel about the South that exudes quite the same refreshing mix of wit and wrath, imagination and indignation, misery and poetry." --Life

"In this woman, 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

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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.

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• Verlag: Dial Press Trade Paperback
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0385342780
• ISBN 13: 9780385342780
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 272