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A lesson before dying

Gaines, Ernest J.Locke, Attica(Introduction by)
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An Oprah Book Club selectionWinner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for FictionNominated for a Pulitzer PrizeIn a small Cajun community in the late 1940s, a young black man named Jefferson witnesses a liquor store shootout in which three men are killed.

The only survivor, he is convicted of murder and sentenced to death. Gaines explores the deep prejudice of the American South in the tradition of Harper Lee's To Kill A Mockingbird and Toni Morrison's Beloved.

A Lesson Before Dying is a richly compassionate and deeply moving novel, the story of a young black man sentenced to death for a murder he did not commit, and a teacher who hopes to ease his burden before the execution.

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Product Details
Serpent's Tail
1846687861 / 9781846687860
Paperback / softback
813.54
04/06/2015
United Kingdom
English
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272 p.
20 cm
Reprint. Originally published: New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993.