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In My Father's House

In My Father's House - Paperback

by Ernest J. Gaines
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Availability:In StockContributor:Ernest J. GainesSeries:Vintage Contemporaries #0000Publish date:1992-06-30Pages:224
Language:EnglishPublisher:Knopf Doubleday Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780679727910ISBN-10:679727914UPC:9780679727910Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Family Life, African American & BlackSize:8.00 x 5.10 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.4497Product ID:SCN1JG62FP
A compelling novel of a man brought to reckon with his buried past...

In St. Adrienne, a small black community in Louisiana, Reverend Phillip Martin--a respected minister and civil rights leader--comes face to face with the sins of his youth in the person of Robert X, a young, unkempt stranger who arrives in town for a mysterious "meeting" with the Reverend.

In the confrontation between the two, the young man's secret burden explodes into the open, and Phillip Martin begins a long-neglected journey into his youth to discover how destructive his former life was, for himself and for those around him.

"...on every page there's an authentic moment, or a dead-right knot of conversation, or a truer-than-true turn of phrase..."--Kirkus Reviews
Language:EnglishPublisher:Knopf Doubleday Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780679727910ISBN-10:679727914UPC:9780679727910Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Family Life, African American & BlackSize:8.00 x 5.10 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.4497Product ID:SCN1JG62FP
Ernest Gaines was born on a plantation in Pointe Coup?e Parish near New Roads, Louisiana, which is the Bayonne of all his fictional works. He is writer-in-residence emeritus at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. In 1993 Gaines received the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellowship for his lifetime achievements. In 1996 he was named a Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, one of France's highest decorations. He and his wife, Dianne, live in Oscar, Louisiana.
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

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