A Lesson Before Dying
- ISBN-10
- 0375702709
- ISBN-13
- 9780375702709
- Series
- A Lesson Before Dying
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 256
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1993
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Author
- Ernest J. Gaines
Description
Grant Wiggins, a college-educated man who returns to his hometown to teach, forms an unlikely bond with Jefferson, a young Black man convicted of murder and sentenced to death, when he is asked to impart his learning and pride to the condemned man
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