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A Lesson Before Dying
A Lesson Before Dying
A Lesson Before Dying
A Lesson Before Dying

A Lesson Before Dying

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"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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Author:
Ernest J. Gaines
ISBN 10:
0375702709
Pages:
272
Publisher:
Vintage
Publication Date:
September 28, 1997
Binding:
Paperback
Weight:
0.45lbs

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