A Gathering of Old Men by Ernest J. Gaines (Alfred A. Knopf)
Jacket for the first edition of Ernest J. Gaines’s A Gathering of Old Men, published in 1983 by Alfred A. Knopf. Illustration and design by Wendell Minor, using condensed caps from two weights of ITC Benguiat. Art direction by Lidia Ferrara and Sara Eisenman.
[…] a profound and unforgettable new novel set in a small corner of the deep South where, over the course of one day, the lives of a group of men and women may be changed forever. It begins with a murder: in the compound of a backwoods Louisiana plantation Beau Boutan, a Cajun farmer, is found shot. […] Ernest Gaines brings to this story the same rich sense of place, the same understanding humor, and the same compassion for a people and their struggle that have informed his previous, widely acclaimed novels.
