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The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman

By: Ernest J. Gaines
Narrated by: Tonya Jordan
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 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 1960s. In this woman, Ernest Gaines has created a legendary figure, a woman equipped to stand beside William Faulkner's Dilsey in The Sound and the Fury. Miss Jane Pittman, like Dilsey, has "endured", has seen almost everything and foretold the rest.©1971 Bantam Books (P)1996 by Blackstone Audiobooks African American Classics Fiction Genre Fiction Historical Fiction Literary Fiction

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Critic reviews

"Gaines' novel brings to mind other great works: The Odyssey, for the way his heroine's travels manage to summarize the American history of her race; and Huckleberry Finn 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 of it all." ( Newsweek)
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