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Title: Catherine Carmier: A Novel (Vintage Contemporaries) by Ernest J. Gaines ISBN: 0679738916 Publisher: Vintage Books Pub. Date: April, 1993 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5
Rating: 5
Summary: Beautiful
Comment: Gaines captures Louisiana culture to a 'T'. As someone who spends a lot of tiem their the Carmiers, Jackson, Charlotte and Mary Louise ring true. HIs descriptions and elegant choice of words are just plain gorgeous. Wonderful classic.
Rating: 5
Summary: Interesting Book
Comment: I throughly enjoyed this novel by Mr. Gaines. It was vivid, realistic, and delighful.This is an easy read.Read it and discover who Catherine really is.
Rating: 5
Summary: A moving book on race relations with people of color.
Comment: The reviews thus far tell little of what this story is about. Although I read it several years ago, as I remember this book, or at least a part of it, centered on the intra-racial divide between those of African descent. The Creoles of color, particularly in the region of the book, have long maintained a somewhat separate status from blacks based on a caste system determined by mixed blood and lineage. The "forgotten people" have maintained they have black blood, but emphasize their heritage also include French, Spanish, and most times Native American blood. Although a great many Creoles eventually assimilated into the black community, during the time of this story, (the 60s, I think) most of them kept a separate status from blacks, thought they were subject to the most part to the same Jim Crow laws and racism as blacks (unless of course, they chose to pass for white- a whole other subject). When Jackson encounters Catherine, they act upon an attraction they had from their school-age days. The unwillingness of both families to accept is at the heart of the story. That a group of people by virtual of the fact they have mixed blood (for that matter, how many blacks are not mixed- whole other book)descended from French planters deem themselves better or superior to others of more distinct African blood and all the ignorance that prevails because of this belief is what this is all about. The reviews talk about Cajuns and indeed this is Cajun country and the different cultures interact, but it is the Creoles of Color that this book is about. Mr. Gaines handles this with his first-hand knowledge of growing up in Louisiana and all of its idiosyncracies regarding race and class. Though the book left me saddened, I enjoyed the subject matter.
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Title: Bloodline by Ernest J. Gaines ISBN: 067978165X Publisher: Vintage Books Pub. Date: November, 1997 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Of Love and Dust (Vintage Contemporaries) by Ernest J. Gaines ISBN: 067975248X Publisher: Vintage Books Pub. Date: June, 1994 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: In My Father's House (Vintage Contemporaries) by Ernest J. Gaines ISBN: 0679727914 Publisher: Vintage Books Pub. Date: July, 1992 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
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Title: A Gathering of Old Men (Vintage Contemporaries) by Ernest J. Gaines ISBN: 0679738908 Publisher: Vintage Books Pub. Date: July, 1992 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
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Title: The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman by Ernest J. Gaines ISBN: 0553263579 Publisher: Bantam Books Pub. Date: 01 August, 1982 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
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