A Gathering of Old Men
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ISBN: 0679738908 / Publisher: Vintage, June 1992
The murder of a white Cajun farmer named Boutan unleashes a fury of buried hatred and defiance, as Sheriff Mapes tries to indentify the killer and prevent revenge
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A powerful depiction of racial tensions arising over the death of a Cajun farmer at the hands of a black man--set on a Louisiana sugarcane plantation in the 1970s. The Village Voice called A Gathering of Old Men &;the best-written novel on Southern race relations in over a decade.&;
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