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| In My Father's House |
| Series: Vintage Contemporaries |
| Author(s): Gaines, Ernest J. |
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| List Price: $11.99 |
| Format: Electronic book text |
| Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group |
| Imprint: Vintage |
| ISBN: 9780307830371 |
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| A compelling novel of a man brought to reckon with ... |
 | 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.>hr<“It is the force of Mr. Gaines's character and intelligence, operating through [his] deceptively quiet style, that makes his fictioni compelling. . . . The dialogue is spare, but unerring, and humor will keep slipping in subtly despite the tragedies behind these lives.” —Larry McMurty, The New York Times Book Review
“He write's eloquently of the frustrated love between fathers and sons. . . . His best writing is marked by what Ralph Ellison, describing the blues, call ‘near-tragic, near-comic lyricism.’” —Margo Jefferson, Newsweek
“The dialogue is mesmerizing. . . . The characterizations come right off the page. . . . No one writes about mainstream, ordinary black life as well as he does.” —Ishmael Reed
“It would make a gripping play with its tight plot and strong scenes of confrontation, its Ibsenite central character.” —The Washington Post
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Other Books by this Author
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| The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman; by Gaines, Ernest J.; Random House Publishing Group, Bantam |
| The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman; by Gaines, Ernest J.; Random House Publishing Group, Dial Press Trade Paperback |
| The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman; by Gaines, Ernest J.; Random House Publishing Group, Bantam |
| Bloodline; by Gaines, Ernest J.; Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Vintage |
| Bloodline; by Gaines, Ernest J.; Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Vintage |
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More Books by this Author...
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| Catherine Carmier; by Gaines, Ernest J.; Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Vintage |
| Catherine Carmier; by Gaines, Ernest J.; Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Vintage |
| A Gathering of Old Men; by Gaines, Ernest J.; Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Vintage |
| A Gathering of Old Men; by Gaines, Ernest J.; Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Vintage |
| A Lesson Before Dying; by Gaines, Ernest J.; Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group, Random House Audio |
| A Lesson Before Dying; by Gaines, Ernest J.; Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Vintage |
| A Lesson Before Dying; by Gaines, Ernest J.; Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Knopf |
| A Lesson Before Dying; by Gaines, Ernest J.; Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Vintage |
| A Lesson Before Dying (SparkNotes Literature Guide); by Gaines, Ernest J.; Spark, SparkNotes |
| A Long Day in November; by Gaines, Ernest J.; Ig Publishing, Lizzie Skurnick Books |
| Mozart and Leadbelly; by Ernest J. Gaines; knopf doubleday publishing group, Knopf |
| Mozart and Leadbelly; by Gaines, Ernest J.; Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Vintage |
| Mozart and Leadbelly; by Gaines, Ernest J.; Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Vintage |
| My Grandpa and the Haint; by Gaines, Ernest J.; Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Vintage |
| Of Love and Dust; by Gaines, Ernest J.; Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Vintage |
| Of Love and Dust; by Gaines, Ernest J.; Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Vintage |
| The Tragedy of Brady Sims; by Gaines, Ernest J.; Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Vintage |
| The Tragedy of Brady Sims; by Gaines, Ernest J.; Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Vintage |
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