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A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines (1997, Hardcover)

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From the author of A Gathering of Old Men and The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman comes a deep and compassionate novel. A young man who returns to 1940s Cajun country to teach visits a black youth on death row for a crime he didn't commit. Together they come to understand the heroism of resisting. From the Trade Paperback edition.

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Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0679455612
ISBN-13
9780679455615
eBay Product ID (ePID)
985444

Product Key Features

Book Title
Lesson before Dying
Author
Ernest J. Gaines
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Family Life, African American / General, Historical
Publication Year
1997
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
272 Pages

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Item Length
8.7in
Item Height
1in
Item Width
5.9in
Item Weight
17 Oz

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"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, "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 From the Trade Paperback edition.
Target Audience
Trade
Dewey Decimal
813.54
Dewey Edition
21

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by leew870Jan 06, 2010
A LESSON BEFORE DYING by Ernest J. Gaines
I have wanted to read this book for some time. It is a good insight into human nature and the prediciments man gets himself into. I recommend the book. A fast read.

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