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Chefs don't have time to write. While I was working on Smoke and Pickles, I was running a restaurant — a daily regimen of testing recipes,... Continue »

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Smoke and Pickles: Recipes and Stories from a New Southern Kitchen
Edward LeeEdward Lee 9781579654924

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Gathering of Old Men

ISBN13: 9780394725918
ISBN10: 0394725913
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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 band together against whites who seek vengeance for the murder of one of their own."--Booklist

"A fine novel...there is a denouement that will shock and move readers as much as it does the characters."--Philadelphia Inquirer

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ISBN:: 9780394725918
Publisher:: Vintage
Location:: New York :
Author:: Gaines, Ernest J.
Subject:: Louisiana
Subject:: Race relations
Subject:: Mystery fiction
Subject:: Blacks
Subject:: Afro-American farmers.
Subject:: Afro-American farmers -- Louisiana -- Fiction.
Subject:: African American farmers
Subject:: General Fiction
Edition Description:: Trade paper
Series:: Vintage Contemporaries
Series Volume:: no. 804
Publication Date:: 1984
Binding:: Paperback
Grade Level:: General/trade
Illustrations:: Yes
Pages:: 224
Dimensions:: 8 x 5.1 x .6 in .4563 lb

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