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A 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.
Jan 1, 1993 · 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.
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.
About A Lesson Before Dying. 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.
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.
A short summary of Ernest J. Gaines's A Lesson Before Dying. This free synopsis covers all the crucial plot points of A Lesson Before Dying.
Jan 20, 2004 · 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...
