The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
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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 1960's. In this woman Ernest Gaines has created a legendary figure, a woman equipped to stand beside William Faulkner's Dilsey in <i>The Sound And The Fury</i>." Miss Jane Pittman, like Dilsey, has 'endured,' has seen almost everything and foretold the rest. Gaines' novel brings to mind other great works <i>The Odyssey</i> for the way his heroine's travels manage to summarize the American history of her race, and <i>Huckleberry Finn</i> 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, <i>Newsweek</i>.<br><br>"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 <i>Light In August</i> than Miss Jane Pittman." -- Josh Greenfeld, <i>Life</i>
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