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A Lesson Before Dying
1999
PG-131999 · Drama · 1h 41mA Lesson Before Dying is Ernest J. Gaines' eighth novel, published in 1993. It was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize and won the National Book Critics Circle Award.The novel is based on the true story of Willie Francis, a young Black American man best known for surviving a failed electrocution in the state of Louisiana in 1946.
- Ernest J. Gaines
- 256 pp
- 1993
- 1993
Jan 1, 1993 · 3.98. 60,355 ratings4,227 reviews. A Lesson Before Dying is set in a small Cajun community in the late 1940s. Jefferson, a young black man, is an unwitting party to a liquor store shoot out in which three men are killed; the only survivor, he is convicted of murder and sentenced to death. Grant Wiggins, who left his hometown for the university ...
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- Paperback
- Ernest J. Gaines
“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.”
- Ernest J. Gaines
- Paperback
Jan 20, 2004 · A Lesson Before Dying: A Novel. NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER • A deep and compassionate novel about a young man who returns to 1940s Cajun country to visit a Black youth on death row for a crime he didn't commit. Together they come to understand the heroism of resisting."An instant classic." —Chicago Tribune A “majestic ...
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Sep 1, 1994 · A Lesson Before Dying (Oprah's Book Club) Paperback – Enhanced, September 1, 1994. NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER • A deep and compassionate novel about a young man who returns to 1940s Cajun country to visit a Black youth on death row for a crime he didn't commit. Together they come to understand the heroism of resisting.
- Ernest J. Gaines
- $9.49
- Vintage
A Lesson Before Dying by Black American writer Ernest J. Gaines and published in 1993, is a novel set in Louisiana during the late 1940s. The plot revolves around Jefferson, a young Black man wrongly convicted of murder, and his transformation as he awaits execution. Grant Wiggins, a local teacher, is assigned the task of educating Jefferson ...
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