A Lesson Before Dying
New York : Vintage Books : A division of Random House, 1993.
Format: Book
Description: 256 pages ; 21 cm
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
Subjects:
African American men -- Fiction.
Authors, American -- Southern states.
Louisiana -- Race relations -- Fiction.
African American men -- Fiction.
Authors, American -- Southern states.
Louisiana -- Race relations -- Fiction.
ISBN:
0375702709