"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 The Sound And The Fury." Miss Jane Pittman, like Dilsey, has 'endured,' has seen almost everything and foretold the rest. 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 in it all." -- Geoffrey Wolff, Newsweek.
"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 Light In August than Miss Jane Pittman." -- Josh Greenfeld, Life
"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 Light In August than Miss Jane Pittman." -- Josh Greenfeld, Life
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Hardback Editions
April 2009 : Library Binding
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October 1999 : Library Binding
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June 1998 : Hardback
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January 1987 : Hardback
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July 1982 : Hardback
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1981 : Hardback
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January 1979 : Hardback
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January 1973 : Hardback
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1972 : Hardback
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1972 : Hardback
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June 1971 : Hardback
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April 1971 : Hardback
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Paperback Editions
January 2009 : Paperback
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September 1996 : Paperback
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1986 : Paperback
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October 1982 : Mass Market Paperback
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1981 : Paperback
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1980 : Paperback
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1979 : Paperback
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1978 : Paperback
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January 1976 : Paperback
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January 1975 : Paperback
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January 1974 : Paperback
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January 1971 : Paperback
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Audio Editions
1994 : Audio Cassette
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1993 : Audio Cassette
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1986 : Audio Cassette
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1984 : Audio Cassette
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April 1982 : Audio Cassette
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January 1975 : Audio Cassette
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Other Editions
May 1989 : Turtleback
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January 1982 : Unknown
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