A Lesson Before Dying: A Novel |
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| Authors: | Gaines, Ernest J. |
| Publisher: | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group |
| BISAC/Subject: | FIC045000, FIC049000 |
| ISBN: | 9781400077700, Related ISBNs: 0375402586, 0375702709, 0517269198, 0679414770, 0679455612 |
| Classification: | Non-Fiction |
| Number of pages: | 272, |
| Audience: | General/trade |
“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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