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A Lesson Before Dying

A Novel

A Novel

By Ernest J. Gaines

By Ernest J. Gaines

By Ernest J. Gaines

By Ernest J. Gaines

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Part of Vintage Contemporaries

Part of Vintage Contemporaries

Category: Historical Fiction

Category: Fiction

Paperback $15.00

Sep 28, 1997 | ISBN 9780375702709

Ebook $11.99

Jan 20, 2004 | ISBN 9781400077700

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    About 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 didn’t commit. Together they come to understand the heroism of resisting.

    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.



    About 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 didn’t commit. Together they come to understand the heroism of resisting.

    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.



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    Also by Ernest J. Gaines

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    Also by Ernest J. Gaines

    The Tragedy of Brady Sims
    My Grandpa and the Haint
    The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
    Mozart and Leadbelly
    Bloodline
    See all books by 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

    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

    Category: Historical Fiction

    Paperback | $15.00
    Published by Vintage
    Sep 28, 1997 | 272 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780375702709

    Category: Fiction

    Ebook | $11.99
    Published by Vintage
    Jan 20, 2004 | 272 Pages | ISBN 9781400077700
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    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

    Awards

    National Book Critics Circle Awards WINNER

    YALSA Best Books for Young Adults WINNER

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