Author: Ernest J. Gaines
“This majestic, moving novel is an instant classic, a book that will be read, discussed and taught beyond the rest of our lives.”—Chicago Tribune
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, A Lesson Before Dying is 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.
From the critically acclaimed author of A Gathering of Old Men and The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman.
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Paperback: 256 pages
Publication Date: September 1994
Publisher: Vintage
Author: Ernest J. Gaines
ISBN-13: 978-0375702709
Genres: Literature & Fiction, Genre Fiction