A Lesson Before Dying (Oprah's Book Club)
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Book Info
Author
Gaines, Ernest J.
Word Count
64,000 words
based on page count
Pages
256 pages
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Edition Publisher
Vintage
Edition Publish Date
1994-09-01
Identifiers
ISBN-10: 0375702709
ISBN-13: 9780375702709
Description
“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
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, A Lesson Before Dying is 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.
From the critically acclaimed author of A Gathering of Old Men and The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman.
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