The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (Paperback: Reprint: 259 pages)
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| Author: | Ernest J. Gaines |
| Format: | Paperback: Reprint: 259 pages. |
| Publisher: | Dial Pr (01/27/2009) |
| ISBN: | 0385342780 |
| ISBN13: | 9780385342780 |
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...[A] grand, robust, most valuable novel that is impossible to dismiss or to put down....Because politics are strung throughout this rich and very big novel, it will no doubt be said that Gaine's book is about politics. But he is too skilled a writer to be stuck in so sordid, so small a category....Gaines is mellow with historical reflection, supple with wit, relaxed and expansive because he does not equate his people with failure.
Finally, this novel transcends the good humor of its aphorisms, transcends even the triumph of a woman's will and history. Miss Jane Pittman would never counsel patience...but she is a mighty elegant demonstration of the promise William Faulkner liked to make--against the the evidence--that we shall prevail.
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"Miss Jane Pittman. She is one of the most unforgettable heroines in American fiction, a woman whose life has come to symbolize the struggle for freedom, dignity, and justice. Ernest J. Gaines's now-classic novel--written as an autobiography--spans one hundred years of Miss Jane's remarkable life, from her childhood as a slave on a Louisiana plantation to the Civil Rights era of the 1960s. It is a story of courage and survival, history, bigotry, and hope--as seen through the eyes of a woman who lived through it all. A historical tour de force, a triumph of fiction, Miss Jane's eloquent narrative brings to life an important story of race in America--and stands as a landmark work for our time.
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