{"product_id":"9780553263572","title":"The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"This is a novel in the guise of the  tape-recorded recollections of a black woman who has  lived 110 years, who has been both a slave and a  witness to the black militancy of the 1960's. In this  woman Ernest Gaines has created a legendary figure,  a woman equipped to stand beside William  Faulkner's Dilsey in \u003ci\u003eThe Sound And The  Fury\u003c\/i\u003e.\" Miss Jane Pittman, like Dilsey, has  'endured,' has seen almost everything and foretold the  rest. Gaines' novel brings to mind other  great works \u003ci\u003eThe Odyssey\u003c\/i\u003e for the way  his heroine's travels manage to summarize the  American history of her race, and \u003ci\u003eHuckleberry  Finn\u003c\/i\u003e for the clarity of her voice, for  her rare capacity to sort through the mess of years  and things to find the one true story in it all.\"  — Geoffrey Wolff, \u003ci\u003eNewsweek\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Stunning. I know of no  black novel about the South  that excludes 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 \u003ci\u003eLight In August\u003c\/i\u003e than Miss  Jane Pittman.\" — Josh Greenfeld,  \u003ci\u003eLife\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Random House Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47013251940592,"sku":"9780553263572","price":6.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780553263572_p0.jpg?v=1763717870","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780553263572","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}