In my father's house / Ernest J. Gaines.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gaines, Ernest J., 1933-2019, author.

Contributor:

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fathers and sons--Fiction.

Fathers and sons.

African Americans--Fiction.

African Americans.

Louisiana--Fiction.

Louisiana.

Genre:

Fiction.

Domestic fiction.

Publishers' advertisements.

Authors' presentation inscriptions (Provenance)

Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Scotland.

Novels.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

8 unnumbered pages, 214 pages, 2 unnumbered pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Distribution:

New York : Distributed by Random House.

Place of Publication:

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1978.

Summary:

/GAINES ERNEST J A compelling novel of a man brought to reckon with his buried past. In a small rural black community in Louisiana, Reverend Martin--a respected minister and civil rights leader, devoted husband and father, a man of strength and rectitude--comes face to face with the sins of his youth when a sinister stranger arrives in town

Notes:

This is a Borzoi Book published by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.

Jacket design by Muriel Nasser.

"The text of this book was set in Caledonia, a Linotype face designed by W. A. Dwiggins."--A Note on the Type.

Lillian Smith Book Award, 1979

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

Banks Collection copy has dust jacket retained.

Banks Collection copy has book review cut from newspaper laid in.

Other Format:

Online version: Gaines, Ernest J., 1933- In my father's house.

ISBN:

0394479386

9780394479385

0679727914

9780679727910

OCLC:

3447158