The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman

Author: Gaines, Ernest J.

Brand: Bantam Books

Color: Multicolor

Edition: Reissue

Features:

• Author: Gaines, Ernest J..
• Publisher: Bantam
• Pages: 259
• Publication Date: 1982
• Edition: Illustrated
• Binding: Paperback
• MSRP: 6.99
• ISBN13: 9780553263572
• ISBN: 0553263579
• Other ISBN: 9780307830258
• Other ISBN Binding: printisbn
• Language: en
• Quality Rating: 1
• "Book cover image may be different than what appears on the actual book."

Binding: mass_market

Format: Illustrated

Number Of Pages: 272

Release Date: 01-09-1996

Part Number: 9780553263572

Details: "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 Dilsey in The Sound And The Fury." Miss Jane Pittman, like Dilsey, has 'endured,' has seen almost everything and foretold the rest. Gaines' novel brings to mind other great works The Odyssey for the way his heroine's travels manage to summarize the American history of her race, and Huckleberry Finn for the clarity of her voice, for her rare capacity to sort through the mess of years and things to find the one true story in it all." -- Geoffrey Wolff, Newsweek."Stunning. I know of no black novel about the South that excludes quite the same refreshing mix of wit and wrath, imagination and indignation, misery and poetry. And I can recall no more memorable female character in Southern fiction since Lena of Faulkner's Light In August than Miss Jane Pittman." -- Josh Greenfeld, Life

EAN: 9780553263572

Package Dimensions: 6.9 x 4.1 x 1.0 inches

Languages: English