【BOOK LOVERS专享200元】Ernest J. Gaines 欧内斯特·盖恩斯 小说集 Four Novels 含《垂死的教训》/《简·皮特曼小姐自传》等代表作 被时代周刊誉为美国最好的黑人作家 Library of America 美国文库 英文英语原版 美国作家最权威版本 当今装帧典范 布面封皮琐线装订 丝带标记 圣经无酸纸薄而不透保存几个世纪不泛黄
Ernest J. Gaines, one of the major Black writers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, joins the Library of America with this volume gathering four of his greatest novels, brilliant works that grapple with the persistent and pervasive legacy of slavery in America. The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman tells the unforgettable story of one woman’s long journey from bondage to freedom. In My Father’s House concerns a civil rights leader who harbors a dark secret. A Gathering of Old Men is a tense and dramatic novel about what it means to claim dignity in the face of violence. And A Lesson Before Dying offers an exquisite and excruciating portrait of a teacher who must prepare an innocent young man for execution. Coming five years after Gaines’s death in 2019 and edited by his authorized biographer, John Wharton Lowe, this volume lets readers take the measure of a still underappreciated American genius.
"The best black writer in America" (Time) joins the Library of America with a volume collecting 4 landmark novels about race and the legacy of slavery in America Includes A Lesson Before Dying, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction and an early Oprah Book Club selection
Born in 1933, the oldest of twelve children in a family of sharecroppers in Oscar, Louisiana, Ernest J. Gaines wrote novels and stories, set on and around the former slave plantation he called home, that are modern classics--nuanced, compassionate portraits of women and men, both Black and white, caught in the vortex of race in America. He joins the Library of America with this volume gathering his four greatest novels.
The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (1971), the story of an elderly woman born into slavery who witnesses Reconstruction, Jim Crow, and the Civil Rights Movement. A living testament to the history, hopes, courage, and survival of her people, Miss Jane is one of the most indelible and unforgettable characters in American fiction. In My Father's House(1978) finds an activist minister organizing a civil rights protest in his town when his estranged son suddenly appears on the scene, threatening to expose his family's secret past. A Gathering of Old Men (1983) sees a group of elderly Black men with nothing left to lose decide to make a last stand against the racism that has defined and delimited their lives. A Lesson Before Dying(1993, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction and an Oprah Book Club selection), in which a local schoolteacher attempts to help a young man falsely convicted of the murder of a white man face execution with dignity.
A fitting tribute to a still underappreciated American genius, this volume also includes a chronology of Gaines's life and career written by his authorized biographer, John Wharton Lowe, and helpful notes.
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