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The fictitious town of Bayonne, based on the plantation town where Gaines grew up, is a common thread in his novels. The first of these is Catherine Carmier, considered by the critics as his seminal work. It is the story of Jackson Bradley who returns to Bayonne after receiving an education in California. Catherine is the daughter of a Creole family. Her father believes that, as a Creole, he is racially and socially superior to anyone with darker skin. William E. Grant says the novel "seems to float outside time and place rather than being solidly anchored in the real world of the...
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