| The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman Contributor(s): Gaines, Ernest J. (Author), Jordan, Tonya (Read by) |
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ISBN: 144174102X ISBN-13: 9781441741028 Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks OUR PRICE: $26.96 Product Type: Compact Disc - Other Formats Published: March 2013 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Historical - General |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.1" W x 5.7" (0.40 lbs) |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Deep South - Cultural Region - Mid-South - Cultural Region - Southeast U.S. - Ethnic Orientation - African American - Geographic Orientation - Louisiana |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This is a novel in the guise of the tape-recorded recollections of a black woman who has lived 110 years, who has been both a slave and a witness to the black militancy of the 1960s. In this woman, Ernest Gaines has created a legendary figure, a woman equipped to stand beside William Faulkner's Dilsey in The Sound and the Fury. Miss Jane Pittman, like Dilsey, has "endured," has seen almost everything and foretold the rest. |
Contributor Bio(s): Gaines, Ernest J.: - Ernest J. Gaines is a writer-in-residence at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. His 1993 novel, A Lesson before Dying, won the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction, was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, and was an Oprah Book Club pick in 1997. In 2004, he was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature. |