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A Lesson Before Dying
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ISBN10: 0375702709
ISBN13: 9780375702709
Publisher: Vintage
Published: Sep 28 1997
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.45
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.20 Depth: 7.90
Language: English
Awards: National Book Critics Circle Award
ISBN13: 9780375702709
Publisher: Vintage
Published: Sep 28 1997
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.45
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.20 Depth: 7.90
Language: English
Awards: National Book Critics Circle Award
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
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