A Lesson Before Dying

"This majestic, moving novel is an instant classic, a book that will be read, discussed and taught beyond the rest of our lives."--Chicago Tribune

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, A Lesson Before Dying is a deep and compassionate novel about a young man who returns to 1940s Cajun country to visit a black youth on death row for a crime he didn't commit. Together they come to understand the heroism of resisting.

From the critically acclaimed author of A Gathering of Old Men and The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman.

Author: Ernest J. Gaines
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 09/28/1997
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.10w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780375702709

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 4.4
Point Value: 11
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 10287 / Lesson Before Dying

Award: National Book Critics Circle Award - Winner

About the Author

Ernest Gaines was born on a plantation in Pointe Coupée 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.