The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman

Name: The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
Brand: Blackstone Audiobooks
Availability: InStock
Rating: 4 (1 reviews)
Author: Ernest J. Gaines
ISBN: 9781481558495

Author: Ernest J. Gaines

Narrator: Tonya Jordan

Unabridged: 7 hr 33 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Publisher: Blackstone Publishing

Published: 01/01/2007

Categories: Fiction

Synopsis

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.

About Ernest J. Gaines

Ernest J. Gaines is a writer-in-residence at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. His 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 in 1997. In 2004, he was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Lawyer on January 01, 2016

The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman: Ernest J. Gaines' novel of the long journey to freedom The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman by Ernest J. Gaines was a selection chosen by members of On the Southern Literary Trail as a group read for January, 2016. Special thanks to Trail member Jane for n......more

Goodreads review by Andy on May 17, 2021

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Goodreads review by Dave on April 26, 2023

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Goodreads review by Camie on January 14, 2016

The author using the guise of an autobiography, has Miss Jane Pittman, who lives to be around 110, telling her story and it's quite an interesting one as she lived through being a slave, to emancipation, and on through to the civil rights era. I think I read this first in Junior High-school , that's......more

Quotes

“Grand, robust, a rich and very big novel.” New York Times Book Review

“Stunning. I know of no black novel about the South that exudes 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 herself.” Life

“Gaines’s 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