An affectionate and funny story set in the “black quarter’ of a Southern sugar cane plantation in the 1940s and told by a child named Eddie, who watches his mother leave his father over his preoccupation with his car, which his father ultimately burns to the ground on the advice of a voodoo woman to get his wife back.
Sobre o autor
Ernest J. Gaines’s 1993 novel A Lesson Before Dying, won the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction, was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize and was an Oprah Book Club pick. Gaines has been a Mac Arthur Foundation fellow, awarded the National Humanities Medal, nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature, and inducted into the French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (Order of Arts and Letters) as a Chevalier. He lives in Oscar, Louisiana with his wife.
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