A Lesson Before Dying

A Novel

Fiction & Literature, African American, Family Life
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Author: Ernest J. Gaines ISBN: 9781400077700
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Publication: January 20, 2004
Imprint: Vintage Language: English
Author: Ernest J. Gaines
ISBN: 9781400077700
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication: January 20, 2004
Imprint: Vintage
Language: English

From the author of A Gathering of Old Men and The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman comes a deep and compassionate novel, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. A young man who returns to 1940s Cajun country to teach visits a black youth on death row for a crime he didn't commit. Together they come to understand the heroism of resisting. 

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From the author of A Gathering of Old Men and The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman comes a deep and compassionate novel, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. A young man who returns to 1940s Cajun country to teach visits a black youth on death row for a crime he didn't commit. Together they come to understand the heroism of resisting. 

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