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A Lesson Before Dying

by Ernest J. Gaines

Synopsis

From the author of A Gathering of Old Men and The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman comes a deep and compassionate novel, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. 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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Book Information

Copyright year 1993
ISBN-13 9780780752887
ISBN-10 0780752880
Class Copyright
Publisher Vintage Books
Subject Fiction
File Size 100 MB
Number of Pages 256
Shelf No. KW847
Grade Range 9-
Ages 14-
Lexile 750L
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