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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.&rdq

A Lesson before Dying Vintage Contemporaries

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      Publisher: Random House USA Inc
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 28/09/1997
      ISBN13: 9780375702709, 978-0375702709
      ISBN10: 0375702709

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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.&rdq

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