Lesson Before Dying
Age Group: 14+
$16.00
ISBN: 0375702709 EAN: 9780375702709
Publisher: Vintage
Author: Ernest J. Gaines
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Pub Date: September 28, 1997
Set in a small Cajun community in the late 1940s, "A Lesson Before Dying" is an "enormously moving" ("Los Angeles Times") novel of one man condemned to die for a crime he did not commit and a young man who visits him in his cell. In the end, the two men forge a bond as they both come to understand the simple heroism of resisting--and defying--the expected. Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction.
