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A Lesson Before Dying

Paperback • 2015 • 1. edition

A Lesson Before Dying

By Ernest J. Gaines

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About the book

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 ...Show more

Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary

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ISBN

9781846687860

Publisher

Profile Books Ltd

Published year

2015

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1

Original title

A Lesson Before Dying

Format

Paperback

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