FIRST VINTAGE CONTEMPORARIES EDITION, JULY 1992

Copyright © 1983 by Ernest J. Gaines

All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto. Originally published by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. in 1983.

Portions of this book have appeared previously in
Black Scholar and Georgia Review.

Library of Congress Cataloging in Publications Data
Gaines, Ernest J., 1933 –
A gathering of old men.
I. Title

[PS3557.A355G3    1984b]       813′.54       91-58064
eISBN: 978-0-307-83038-8

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