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A Lesson Before Dying

A Lesson Before Dying

by Ernest J. Gaines

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  • ISBN13: 9780375702709
  • ISBN10: 0375702709
  • Publisher: Vintage
  • Publish Date: September 28, 1997
  • Page Count: 272
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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