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A Gathering of Old Men (Reprint Edition) by Ernest J. Gaines Paperback, 213 Pages, Published 1992 ISBN-10: 0-679-73890-8 / 0679738908 ISBN-13: 978-0-679-73890-9 / 9780679738909 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 b |