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Book by Ernest J Gaines
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6 cassettes / approx. 8 hours
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Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction
"A Lesson Before Dying reconfirms Ernest J. Gaines's position as an important American writer."
--Boston Globe
A Lesson Before Dying is set in a small Cajun community in the late 1940s. Jefferson, a young black man, is an unwitting party to a liquor store shootout in which three men are killed; the only survivor, he is convicted of murder and sentenced to death. Grant Wiggins, who left his hometown for the university, has returned to the plantation school to teach. As he struggles with his decision whether to stay or escape to another state, his aunt and Jefferson's godmother persuade him to visit Jefferson in his cell and impart his learning and his pride to Jefferson before his death. In the end, the two men forge a bond as they both come to understand the simple heroism of resisting -- and defying -- the unexpected.
Ernest J.. Gaines brings to this novel the same rich sense of place, the same deep understanding of the human psyche, and the same compassion for a people and their struggle that have informed his previous, highly praised works of fiction.
"Enormously moving . . . Gaines unerringly evokes the place and time about which he writes." -- Los Angeles Times
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Ernest J. Gaines was born on a plantation in Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana, which is the Bayonne of all his fictional works.
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- EditorialRandom House
- Año de publicación1997
- ISBN 10 0375402586
- ISBN 13 9780375402586
- EncuadernaciónCasete de audio
- IdiomaInglés
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A Lesson Before Dying
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Random House, UNITED STATES, 1997
ISBN 10: 0375402586
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A Lesson Before Dying
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