A Lesson Before Dying Paperback / softback
by Ernest J. Gaines
Part of the Serpent's Tail Classics series
Paperback / softback
Description
An Oprah Book Club selectionWinner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for FictionNominated for a Pulitzer PrizeIn a small Cajun community in the late 1940s, a young black man named Jefferson witnesses a liquor store shootout in which three men are killed.
The only survivor, he is convicted of murder and sentenced to death. Gaines explores the deep prejudice of the American South in the tradition of Harper Lee's To Kill A Mockingbird and Toni Morrison's Beloved.
A Lesson Before Dying is a richly compassionate and deeply moving novel, the story of a young black man sentenced to death for a murder he did not commit, and a teacher who hopes to ease his burden before the execution.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:272 pages
- Publisher:Profile Books Ltd
- Publication Date:04/06/2015
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- ISBN:9781846687860
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Less than 10 available - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:272 pages
- Publisher:Profile Books Ltd
- Publication Date:04/06/2015
- Category:
- ISBN:9781846687860
