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A Lesson Before Dying

by Ernest J Gaines

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Synopses & Reviews

Publisher Comments:

From the author of A Gathering of Old Men and The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman comes a deep and compassionate novel. A young man who returns to 1940s Cajun country to teach visits a black youth on death row for a crime he didn't commit. Together they come to understand the heroism of resisting.

From the Hardcover edition.

Product Details

ISBN:
9780679455615
Author:
Gaines, Ernest J.
Author:
Parr
Author:
Gaines, Ernest J.
Author:
Parr, Terence
Publisher:
Knopf Publishing Group
Location:
New York :
Subject:
Literary
Subject:
Historical
Subject:
Fiction
Subject:
Friendship
Subject:
Louisiana
Subject:
Historical fiction
Subject:
Death row inmates
Subject:
African American men
Copyright:
Series:
Oprah's Book Club
Series Volume:
2002-04
Binding:
Hardcover
Language:
English
Pages:
272
Dimensions:
8.66x6.00x1.02 in. 1.02 lbs.

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