Pub Date: September 28, 1997
Dewey: FIC
LCCN: 93042201
Lexile Code: 0750
Features: Price on Product
Target Age Group: NA to NA
Physical Info: 0.70" H x 7.90" L x 5.20" W ( 0.45 lbs) 272 pages
BISAC Categories:
Fiction | Literary | African American and Black | Historical | Family Life | General
Series: Vintage Contemporaries
Description: 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.
Review Quotes: "This majestic, moving novel is an instant classic, a book that will be read, discussed and taught beyond the rest of our lives." --Chicago Tribune
"A Lesson Before Dying reconfirms Ernest J. Gaines's position as an important American writer." --Boston Globe "Enormously moving. . . . Gaines unerringly evokes the place and time about which he writes." --Los Angeles Times "A quietly moving novel [that] takes us back to a place we've been before to impart a lesson for living." --San Francisco Chronicle