{"product_id":"the-autobiography-of-miss-jane-pittman-9780385342780","title":"The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"Grand, robust, a rich and big novel.\"--Alice Walker, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"In [Jane Pittman], Ernest Gaines has created a legendary figure. . . . Gaines's novel brings to mind other great works: \u003ci\u003eThe Odyssey\u003c\/i\u003e, for the way his heroine's travels manage to summarize the American history of her race, and \u003ci\u003eHuckleberry Finn, \u003c\/i\u003efor the clarity of [Pittman's] voice, for her rare capacity to sort through the mess of years and things to find the one true story of it all.\"--\u003ci\u003eNewsweek\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMiss Jane Pittman. She is one of the most unforgettable heroines in American fiction, a woman whose life has come to symbolize the struggle for freedom, dignity, and justice. Ernest J. Gaines's now-classic novel--written as an autobiography--spans one hundred years of Miss Jane's remarkable life, from her childhood as a slave on a Louisiana plantation to the Civil Rights era of the 1960s. It is a story of courage and survival, history, bigotry, and hope--as seen through the eyes of a woman who lived through it all. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA historical tour de force, a triumph of fiction, Miss Jane's eloquent narrative brings to life an important story of race in America--and stands as a landmark work for our time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eErnest Gaines is a writer-in-residence at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. His 1993 novel, \u003ci\u003eA Lesson Before Dying\u003c\/i\u003e, won the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction and was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. In 2004, he was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Gaines' \u003ci\u003eA Lesson Before Dying\u003c\/i\u003e was an Oprah Book Club pick in 1997.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Random House Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50707341967634,"sku":"9780385342780","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_d483ad62-4cb9-47c9-9512-85428b5180fc.jpg?v=1734495262","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-autobiography-of-miss-jane-pittman-9780385342780","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}