MISS JANE PITTMAN Author:ERNEST J GAINES "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."