A Lesson Before Dying

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 didnt 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. Gainess 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
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