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Five stories that take place in the cane fields, sharecroppers' shacks, and decaying plantation houses of Louisiana.

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Main Author:	Gaines, Ernest J., 1933-2019 (Author)
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Vintage Contemporaries, 1997.
Edition:	First Vintage Contemporaries edition.
Subjects:	African Americans > Fiction. Plantation life > Fiction. Louisiana > Social life and customs > Fiction. Short stories.
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Summary:	Five stories that take place in the cane fields, sharecroppers' shacks, and decaying plantation houses of Louisiana.
Item Description:	Originally published in hardcover by the Dial Press, New York, 1968.
Physical Description:	249 pages ; 21 cm
ISBN:	9780679781653 067978165X
Author Notes:	Ernest Gaines was born on a plantation in Pointe Coupée Parish near New Roads, Louisiana, which is the Bayonne of all his fictional works. He is writer-in-residence emeritus at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. In 1993 Gaines received the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellowship for his lifetime achievements. In 1996 he was named a Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, one of France's highest decorations. He and his wife, Dianne, live in Oscar, Louisiana.