- African American farmers, Fiction, Murder, Historical
Beau Boutan, a hated Cajun farmer, is shot, and a dozen aging black men claim to be the murderer.
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Grave, earnest, classical in form and bleak.
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- warmbleak
- contemplativerelentless
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About the book
- Author
- Ernest J. Gaines
- First published
- 1983
- Pages
- 213
- Publisher
- Perfection Learning Prebound, Vintage Books, Heinemann
- Editions
- 17
- Language
- Russian, English
- ISBN
- 9780606010276
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Ernest J. Gaines was born on a plantation in Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana, the oldest of 12 children. His parents moved to Vallejo, California during World War II, so he was raised by his aunt, who was crippled and limited to crawling to get around. His was the fifth generation of share croppers to live on the plantation, and his family lived in a house that had formerly been slave quarters. During the summers, he picked cotton, and during the winters he was educated at the the plantation church. He spent three years at St. Augustine School, a Catholic school for African Americans in New Roads, but his education ended at the eighth grade because there was no further education offered to A
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