A Lesson Before Dying

A Novel

A Novel

By Ernest J. Gaines

By Ernest J. Gaines

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    About A Lesson Before Dying

    “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.



    About A Lesson Before Dying

    “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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    National Book Critics Circle Awards WINNER

    YALSA Best Books for Young Adults WINNER

    Praise

    “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

    “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

    About Ernest J. Gaines

    Ernest Gaines was born on a plantation in Pointe Coupee Parish near New Roads, Louisiana, which is the Bayonne of all his fictional works. He is a writer-in-residence emeritus at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Gaines received a MacArthur Fellowship… More about Ernest J. Gaines

    About Ernest J. Gaines

    Ernest Gaines was born on a plantation in Pointe Coupee Parish near New Roads, Louisiana, which is the Bayonne of all his fictional works. He is a writer-in-residence emeritus at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Gaines received a MacArthur Fellowship… More about Ernest J. Gaines

    Product Details

    Paperback
    Published by Vintage
    Sep 28, 1997 | 272 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780375702709

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    Published by Vintage
    Jan 20, 2004 | 272 Pages | ISBN 9781400077700

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