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Lesson Before Dying — Ernest J. Gaines
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
"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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