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Catherine Carmier (Vintage Contemporaries)
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Author: Ernest J. Gaines
By the author of A Lesson Before Dying and The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, Catherine Carmier is a compelling love story set in a deceptively bucolic Louisiana countryside, where blacks, Cajuns, and whites maintain an uneasy coexistence. — After living in San Francisco for ten years, Jackson returns home to his benefactor, Aunt Charlotte. ...  more »
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ISBN-13: 9780679738916
ISBN-10: 0679738916
Publication Date: 3/31/1993
Pages: 256
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Publisher: Vintage
Book Type: Paperback
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Another great novel of the bigotry in Louisianas Cajun parishes, this might be subtitled You Should Not Go Home Again. Intolerance is not limited to whites against blacks; in his world it is near white against mulatto against black, and Cajun against all. Here are star-crossed lovers to rival Shakespeare; doomed to separation; torn by loyalty to family.


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