A Lesson Before Dying
- ISBN-10
- 0679741666
- ISBN-13
- 9780679741664
- Series
- A Lesson Before Dying
- Category
- African American men
- Pages
- 256
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1994-01
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Author
- Ernest J. Gaines
Description
/GAINES ERNEST J 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.
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