A Lesson Before Dying (CD-Audio)
Volume 7
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From the author of A Gathering of Old Men and The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman comes a deep and compassionate novel. 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 ......more
From the author of A Gathering of Old Men and The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman comes a deep and compassionate novel. 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.
From the Trade Paperback edition.
Ernest Gaines was born on a plantation in Pointe Coupee Parish near New Roads, Louisiana, which is the Bayonne of all his fictional works. He is writer-in-residence emeritus at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. In 1993 Gaines received the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellowship for his lifetime achievements. In 1996 he was named a Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, one of France’s highest decorations. He and his wife, Dianne, live in Oscar, Louisiana.
Ernest Gaines’s A Lesson Before Dying, A Gathering of Old Men, The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, Bloodline, and Of Love and Dust are available in Vintage paperback.
From the Hardcover edition.
- Author:
- Gaines, Ernest J.
- Genre:
- FICTION / General
- Audience:
- General/trade
- Edition Detail:
- Unabridged
- Format:
- CD-Audio
- Language:
- English
- Publisher:
- Random House
- Publish Date:
- 05/17/2005
- Copyright Year:
- 1997
- ISBN:
- 9780739323670
- Height:
- 6.0 in
- Wdth:
- 5.25 in
- Thickness:
- 1.25 in
- Unit weight:
- 0.55 lb
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It was a good book. very intersting and sad at the same time. Well written, but slow and long at times.
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