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A Lesson Before Dying

A Novel

Formats and Prices

On Sale
Sep 28, 1997
Page Count
272 pages
Publisher
Vintage
ISBN-13
9780375702709

Format

Trade Paperback

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Trade 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