Ernest J. Gaines (Critical Survey of Long Fiction)
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Ernest J. Gaines published a collection of short stories, Bloodline, in 1968. One story from that collection, A Long Day in November, was published separately in a children’s edition in 1971.
Achievements
For more than thirty years, Gaines has been a serious and committed writer of fiction. He has always worked slowly, frustratingly slowly to his admirers, but that is because of his great devotion to and respect for the craft of fiction. The six novels he had written through 1999 are all set in rural Louisiana, north of...
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