A Lesson Before Dying (Oprah's Book Club #9)

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    A story of injustice and redemption set in rural Louisiana during the late 1940s. Grant Wiggins, a backwoods schoolmaster, is asked visit a young black prisoner on death row. Jefferson, the prisoner, was falsely accused and convicted of murder an...
 
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    A story of injustice and redemption set in rural Louisiana during the late 1940s. Grant Wiggins, a backwoods schoolmaster, is asked visit a young black prisoner on death row. Jefferson, the prisoner, was falsely accused and convicted of murder and is sentenced to hang, and Wiggins' job, once he realizes the impossibility of overturning the verdict, is to prepare the boy for death. Although, as a nonbeliever, Wiggins at first finds himself in competition with the minister for the boy's attention, he eventually comes to see that the cultivation of any instinct of love--human or religious--is the essence of salvation, both for Jefferson and himself.
 

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Excellent book

shops4fun from St.Louis, Jan 11, 2008

I enjoyed every aspect of this book. Very insightful on many levels. I highly recommend this book.

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A lesson before dying

theresa941 from Los Angeles, CA, Oct 19, 2006

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This book is amazing. A lesson to be learned reading this book and passed on to our children.

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