Of Love and Dust
1968
First Published
4.13
Average Rating
288
Number of Pages
“A serious, powerful novel…[Gaines] is a writer of terrific energy.”— The Nation This is the story of bonded out of jail where he has been awaiting trial for murder, he is sent to the Hebert plantation to work in the fields. There he encounters conflict with the overseer, Sidney Bonbon, and a tale of revenge, lust and power plays out between Marcus, Bonbon, Bonbon’s mistress Pauline, and Bonbon’s wife Louise.
Avg Rating
4.13
Number of Ratings
784
5 STARS
37%
4 STARS
43%
3 STARS
17%
2 STARS
3%
1 STARS
1%
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Author
Ernest J. Gaines
Author · 12 books
Ernest James Gaines was a novelist, short story writer, and teacher. Born to a sharecropping family, Ernest James Gaines was picking cotton in the fields by age nine and only attended school five or six months a year. When he was fifteen, he moved to California to join his mother and stepfather, because his Louisiana parish had no high school for African Americans. It was in California that he began writing. He attended San Francisco State University, served in the army, and won a writing fellowship to Stanford University. Gaines was a MacArthur Foundation fellow, inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters, awarded the National Humanities Medal and the National Medal of Arts, and inducted into the French Order of Arts and Letters as a Chevalier.
