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A Lesson Before Dying: A Novel

Author/Illustrator: Ernest J Gaines
Adult
Published September 28, 1997
$ 1600 USD

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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

AWARDS

• YALSA Best Books for Young Adults winner

• National Book Critics Circle Awards winner

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