# A Gathering of Old Men

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- Book: [A Gathering of Old Men](https://www.bookquiver.com/ernest-j-gaines/a-gathering-of-old-men) ([A Gathering of Old Men.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/ernest-j-gaines/a-gathering-of-old-men.md))
- Authors: [Ernest J. Gaines](https://www.bookquiver.com/ernest-j-gaines)
- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-06-7973-890-9
- Pages: 224
- Published: 1992-06-30
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

A powerful depiction of racial tensions arising over the death of a Cajun farmer at the hands of a black man--set on a Louisiana sugarcane plantation in the 1970s. The Village Voice called A Gathering...