The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman - by Ernest J Gaines (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Fictional biography of a Black slave, who lived for 100 years after the Civil War.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>"This is a novel in the guise of the tape-recorded recollections of a black woman who has lived 110 years, who has been both a slave and a witness to the black militancy of the 1960's. In this woman Ernest Gaines has created a legendary figure, a woman equipped to stand beside William Faulkner's Dilsey in <i>The Sound And The Fury</i>." Miss Jane Pittman, like Dilsey, has 'endured, ' has seen almost everything and foretold the rest. Gaines' novel brings to mind other great works <i>The Odyssey</i> for the way his heroine's travels manage to summarize the American history of her race, and <i>Huckleberry Finn</i> for the clarity of her voice, for her rare capacity to sort through the mess of years and things to find the one true story in it all." -- Geoffrey Wolff, <i>Newsweek</i>. <p/>"Stunning. I know of no black novel about the South that excludes quite the same refreshing mix of wit and wrath, imagination and indignation, misery and poetry. And I can recall no more memorable female character in Southern fiction since Lena of Faulkner's <i>Light In August</i> than Miss Jane Pittman." -- Josh Greenfeld, <i>Life</i><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"In this woman, Ernest Gaines has created a legendary figure. . . . Gaines's novel brings to mind other great works: <i>The Odyssey</i>, for the way his heroine's travels manage to summarize the American history of her race, and <i>Huckleberry Finn, </i> for the clarity of [Pittman's] voice, for her rare capacity to sort through the mess of years and things to find the one true story of it all."<b>--<i>Newsweek</i></b><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Ernest Gaines is a writer-in-residence at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. His 1993 novel, <i>A Lesson Before Dying</i>, won the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction and was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. In 2004, he was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Gaines' <i>A Lesson Before Dying</i> was an Oprah Book Club pick in 1997.
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