A Gathering Of Old Men/ Critical Reception

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...as one of the country's best African American writers. Beginning with this work "The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman," Gaines's novels have inspired and informed the mainstream of Western culture concerning the lives of African Americans. His novel "A Lesson Before Dying" was awarded the National Book Critics Circle Award and it was also hailed as "one of the best American books of 1993" (Laney PG). An earlier work by Gaines, "A Gathering of Old Men," has also been generally acknowledged as a superior example of the African American literary genre.
In "Gathering," the plot revolves around the murder of Beau Boutan, the oldest son of Fix Boutan, a Cajun who is notorious in the vicinity for his racial violence. The young white woman who is the proprietor...

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