Image | |
EAN-13 | 9780553263572 |
Product Name | The Autobiography Of Miss Jane Pittman |
Language | English |
Category | Book / Magazine / Publication |
Short Description | Mass Market Paperback |
Amazon.com | Buy on Amazon ~ 0553263579 |
SKU | ACAMP_BOOK_USEDLIKENEW_0553263579 |
Price New | 2.99 US Dollars (curriencies) |
Price Used | 0.25 US Dollars (curriencies) |
Width | 0.71 inches (convert) |
Height | 6.87 inches (convert) |
Length | 4.19 inches (convert) |
Weight | 4.64 ounces (convert) |
Author | Ernest J. Gaines |
Page Count | 259 |
Binding | Paperback |
Published | 08/01/1982 |
Features | Great product! |
Long Description | "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 The Sound And The Fury ." Miss Jane Pittman, like Dilsey, has 'endured,' has seen almost everything and foretold the rest. Gaines' novel brings to mind other great works The Odyssey for the way his heroine's travels manage to summarize the American history of her race, and Huckleberry Finn 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, Newsweek . "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 Light In August than Miss Jane Pittman." -- Josh Greenfeld, Life |
Similar Items | 9780140436815: Bayou Folk And A Night In Acadie (Penguin Classics) 9780130221209: Algebra 2, with trigonometry: Solutions manual 9780130220967: Algebra 2 With Trigonometry/Teachers Edition 9780130220707: Algebra 2 With Trigonometry 9780077368326: Experience History, Volume 2: Since 1865 / Edition 7 9780077240677: The Unfinished Nation: A Brief, Interactive History Of The American People (With Primary Source Investigator Cd) 9780072315097: Nation Of Nations: A Narrative History Of The American Republic 9780060975296: 1959: A Novel 9780060928667: Design For Dying 0074645895390: Autobiography Of Jane Pittman View 59 more similar items |
Created | 02-26-2012 6:32:25pm |
Modified | 04-30-2020 9:59:08pm |
MD5 | 298ea28f5984b956d68f83f3374321cf |
SHA256 | 107f5ddcd6641ef84c09274007513b92901eac2ab0dde9ad8795031867554d68 |
Search Google | by EAN or by Title |
Query Time | 0.0267839 |
An article of interest
Making use of the tools we offer
Free Data Feed vs. Paid Data Feed Subscription
We have been asked a few times why we put a delay on the free data feed access and why someone should pay for the fast data feed access instead of just using the free version.
Put simply, the free data feed is inteded for you to use while testing your application or if you have a very low lookup requirement. You can even use the free version in production if you don't mind the forced delay in getting your databack. But if you need high volume or need fast data lookups all day long, you really do need to pay for a subscription.
The free version of the data feed will deliver a limited number of lookups each day at full speed and at no charge. Just like manual lookups, every user gets this limited number of fast lookups. Unlike manual lookups though, if you lookup the same data more than once with your data feed, it still counts as a lookup and one of your free lookups gets used. Manual lookups get repeat lookups for free. Why? Because the user gets to see our ads again and might click on one to earn us a small amount of money. You don't think we run this site for free do you?
With a subscription, all of your data feed lookups are fast no matter how many you execute in a day. Repeat lookups of the same item still count as a new lookup, but they are still just as fast as all the others. We try to optomize the data feed lookups for the subscribers to deliver the highest speed of data delivery as we can.
We have run some tests under simulated conditions using multiple computers but all using the same account. Each computer was on a separate network with its own route into our server. We did this to see variations in access time and how many lookups could be performed in a day. Each computer in the test hammered our site trying to grab unique data lookups as quickly as possible. To make this work we gave each computer a list of known codes that we knew would return valid data.
On the average, each computer in the test could perform a large number of lookups in a 24 hour period. Although each computer had different results based on the network, time of day and load on our server, over all they were all fairly close.
When in FREE mode, they were able to average 18,000 lookups in a 24 hour period.
When in SUBSCRIPTION mode, they were able to average 129,600 lookps in a 24 hour period.
Our server processed an average of 1,684,800 lookup request during each 24 hour period while testing which is many times higher than our normal daily load. We really torchered the server to see what it could do.
You can see from these numbers that we have the ability to deliver a large amount of data. One of the largest factors in delivering the data is the network communication speed. Due to standard delays in communication, it often takes longer to ask for the data than it does for us to lookup the informaiton.
You should also quickly notice that in FREE mode, the system does a very good job of limiting how many lookups can be done. This is done by forcing a pause between the data request and returning the data to the calling application once the fast lookups are used up. And if you are asking yourself why we would force this type of delay, well it should be clear. We need to make money. It costs money and takes time to keep this site running. If you are making a lot of requests for our data, it is probably because you are trying to make money with your app so why should we not also make some money on the deal? Data feeds don't generate any ad revenue so we have to charge another way.
On the data feed page you can learn more about how the feed works and purchase a subscription if you like.