A Lesson Before Dying A Novel |
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Author:
| Gaines, Ernest J. |
Series title: | Vintage Contemporaries Ser. |
ISBN: | 978-0-375-70270-9 |
Publication Date: | Sep 1997 |
Publisher: | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
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Imprint: | Vintage |
Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $16.00 |
Book Description:
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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...
More Description 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