Ernest J. Gaines
A Lesson Before Dying
Hardcover
(Knopf Sept. 29, 1997)
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.
- ISBN
- 0679455612 / 9780679455615
- Pages
- 272
- Weight
- 16.32 oz.
- Dimensions
- 5.89 x 1.04
in.