A Lesson Before Dying -- Ernest J. Gaines, Paperback
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NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER - A deep and compassionate novel about a young man who returns to 1940s Cajun country to visit a Black youth on death row for a crime he didn't commit. Together they come to understand the heroism of resisting. "An instant classic." --Chicago Tribune
A "majestic, moving novel...an instant classic, a book that will be read, discussed and taught beyond the rest of our lives" (Chicago Tribune), from the critically acclaimed author of A Gathering of Old Men and The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman. "A Lesson Before Dying reconfirms Ernest J. Gaines's position as an important American writer." --Boston Globe "Enormously moving.... Gaines unerringly evokes the place and time about which he writes." --Los Angeles Times "A quietly moving novel [that] takes us back to a place we've been before to impart a lesson for living." --San Francisco Chronicle
A Lesson Before Dying -- Ernest J. Gaines, Paperback
$16.00
Author: Ernest J. Gaines
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 9/28/1997
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.45 lbs
Size: 7.9" H x 5.2" L x 0.7" W
ISBN: 9780375702709