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Book Review of A Gathering of Old Men (Vintage Contemporaries)

A Gathering of Old Men (Vintage Contemporaries)
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This book is awesome.I picked it up on a fluke and am sure glad I did.
Focusing on a hot day in 1970 Louisiana,a sheriff is summoned to a sugarcane plantation,where he finds 1 young white woman,and 18 old black men,and 1 dead Cajun farmer.
Each man claims guilt,and all but one promises to provoke a riot at the courthouse if the sheriff tries to make an arrest.Im the meantime, they all await the lynch mob that the dead mans father-like his son,a notorious brute-is sure to launch.Before its over,everyone involved has been surprised by something;the old men not least of all,by their first taste of power and pride.