Arthur Johnson Memorial Library

Gaines, Ernest J.

Lesson Before Dying A Lesson Before Dying Ernest J. Gaines - New York Vintage Books a division of Random House 1993 - 256 p. 21 cm.

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.

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African American men--Fiction.


Louisiana--Race relations--Fiction.

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