Ernest J. Gaines – författare
Visar alla böcker från författaren Ernest J. Gaines. Handla med fri frakt och snabb leverans.
24 produkter
Lesson Before Dying
Häftad, 2015
142 kr
Lägg i varukorg
An Oprah Book Club selectionWinner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for FictionNominated for a Pulitzer PrizeIn a small Cajun community in the late 1940s, a young black man named Jefferson witnesses a liquor store shootout in which three men are killed. The only survivor, he is convicted …
Mozart and Leadbelly
E-bok, 2007
158 kr
Lägg i varukorg
In this collection of stories and essays, the beloved author of the classic, best-selling novel A Lesson Before Dying shares the inspirations behind his books and his reasons for becoming a writer. Told in the simple and powerful prose that is a hallmark of his craft, these writings by Ernest J. …
Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
E-bok, 2012
96 kr
Lägg i varukorg
"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 1960''s. In this woman Ernest Gaines has created a legendary figure, a woman equipped to stand beside William Faulkner''s …
Catherine Carmier
E-bok, 2012
139 kr
Lägg i varukorg
By the author of A Lesson Before Dying and The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, Catherine Carmier is a compelling love story set in a deceptively bucolic Louisiana countryside, where blacks, Cajuns, and whites maintain an uneasy coexistence. After living in San Francisco for ten years, Jackson …
Of Love and Dust
E-bok, 2012
173 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This is the story of Marcus: bonded out of jail where he has been awaiting trial for murder, he is sent to the Hebert plantation to work in the fields. There he encounters conflict with the overseer, Sidney Bonbon, and a tale of revenge, lust and power plays out between Marcus, Bonbon, BonBon''s …
Bloodline
Five Stories
E-bok, 2012
139 kr
Lägg i varukorg
In these five stories, Gaines returns to the cane fields, sharecroppers'' shacks, and decaying plantation houses of Louisiana, the terrain of his great novels A Gathering of Old Men and A Lesson Before Dying . As rendered by Gaines, this country becomes as familiar, and as haunted by cruelty, …
In My Father's House
E-bok, 2012
139 kr
Lägg i varukorg
A story of a man brought to reckon with his buried past. Reverend Martin comes face to face with the sins of his youth in the person of Robert X, a young, unkempt stranger who arrives in town for a mysterious "meeting" with the Reverend.
Gathering of Old Men
E-bok, 2012
139 kr
Lägg i varukorg
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 …
Tragedy of Brady Sims
E-bok, 2017
110 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Ernest J. Gaines''s new novella revolves around a courthouse shooting that leads a young reporter to uncover the long story of race and power in his small town and the relationship between the white sheriff and the black man who "whipped children" to keep order. After Brady Sims pulls out a gun in …
My Grandpa and the Haint
E-bok, 2015
16 kr
Lägg i varukorg
A Vintage Shorts “Short Story Month” Selection The fish are nearly jumping in the bayous of Louisiana, but hoodoo magic is just as easy to find. And one day, Bobby’s grandfather catches a haint. With his characteristically rich sense of place and deep understanding of the human psyche, Ernest …
Lesson Before Dying
A Novel
E-bok, 2004
225 kr
Lägg i varukorg
A Lesson Before Dying , is set in a small Cajun community in the late 1940s. Jefferson, a young black man, is an unwitting party to a liquor store shoot out in which three men are killed; the only survivor, he is convicted of murder and sentenced to death. Grant Wiggins, who left his hometown for …
Lesson Before Dying
Ljudbok, 2002
102 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Based on Ernest J. Gaines' National Book Critics Circle Award-winning novel, Romulus Linney's A Lesson Before Dying is set in a small Louisiana Cajun community in the late 1940s. Jefferson, a young illiterate black man, is falsely convicted of murder and is sentenced to death. Grant Wiggins, the …
Lesson Before Dying
E-bok, 2015
131 kr
Lägg i varukorg
An Oprah Book Club selectionWinner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for FictionNominated for a Pulitzer PrizeIn a small Cajun community in the late 1940s, a young black man named Jefferson witnesses a liquor store shootout in which three men are killed. The only survivor, he is convicted …
