My Grandpa and the Haint

by Ernest J. Gaines

Overview

A Vintage Shorts “Short Story Month” Selection
 
The fish are nearly jumping in the bayous of Louisiana, but hoodoo magic is just as easy to find. And one day, Bobby’s grandfather catches a haint. 
 
With his characteristically rich sense of place and deep understanding of the human psyche, Ernest Gaines, National Book Critics Circle Award winner and author of the classic novel A Lesson Before Dying, presents a raconteur’s tale of rustic Southern living, A selection from Gaines’s collection of prose, Mozart and Leadbelly. 
 
An eBook short.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781101969908
Publisher:	Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date:	05/16/2015
Series:	A Vintage Short
Sold by:	Random House
Format:	eBook
Pages:	32
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Ernest Gaines is a writer-in-residence at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. His 1993 novel, A Lesson Before Dying, won the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction and was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. In 2004, he was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Gaines’ A Lesson Before Dying was an Oprah Book Club pick in 1997.