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The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman by Ernest J. Gaines

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The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman

by Ernest J. Gaines

Narrator Tonya Jordan

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Length 8 hours 12 minutes

Language English

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Summary
About the author

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.

Fiction

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.

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Audiobook details

Author:
Ernest J. Gaines

Narrator:
Tonya Jordan

ISBN:
9781481558495

Length:
8 hours 12 minutes

Language:
English

Publisher:
Blackstone Publishing

Publication date:
January 1, 2007

Edition:
Unabridged

Reviews

“Grand, robust, a rich and very big novel.”

“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.”

“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.”

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