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Product Identifiers
PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-100375702709
ISBN-139780375702709
eBay Product ID (ePID)380034
Product Key Features
Book TitleLesson before Dying : a Novel
Number of Pages272 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1997
TopicFamily Life, African American / General, African American / Historical, Historical
GenreFiction
AuthorErnest J. Gaines
Book SeriesVintage Contemporaries Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.6 in
Item Weight6.8 Oz
Item Length8 in
Item Width5.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN93-042201
Reviews"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 " A Lesson Before Dying reconfirms Ernest J. Gaines's position as an important American writer." -- Boston Globe "Enormously moving. . . . Gaines unerringly evokes the place and time about which he writes." -- Los Angeles Times "A quietly moving novel [that] takes us back to a place we've been before to impart a lesson for living." -- San Francisco Chronicle, "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 " A Lesson Before Dying reconfirms Ernest J. Gaines's position as an important American writer." -- Boston Globe "Enormously moving. . . . Gaines unerringly evokes the place and time about which he writes." -- Los Angeles Times "A quietly moving novel [that] takes us back to a place we've been before to impart a lesson for living." -- San Francisco Chronicle, "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 " A Lesson Before Dying reconfirms Ernest J. Gaines's position as an important American writer."- Boston Globe "Enormously moving... Gaines unerringly evokes the place and time about which he writes."- Los Angeles Times, "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 "A Lesson Before Dyingreconfirms Ernest J. Gaines's position as an important American writer."-Boston Globe "Enormously moving... Gaines unerringly evokes the place and time about which he writes."- Los Angeles Times
TitleLeadingA
Dewey Edition21
Dewey Decimal813.54
SynopsisNATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER * 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. "An instant classic." -- Chicago Tribune A "majestic, moving novel...an instant classic, a book that will be read, discussed and taught beyond the rest of our lives" ( Chicago Tribune), from the critically acclaimed author of A Gathering of Old Men and The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman. " A Lesson Before Dying reconfirms Ernest J. Gaines's position as an important American writer. " --Boston Globe " Enormously moving.... Gaines unerringly evokes the place and time about which he writes ." --Los Angeles Times "A quietly moving novel [that] takes us back to a place we've been before to impart a lesson for living." -- San Francisco Chronicle, NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER - 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. "An instant classic." -- Chicago Tribune A "majestic, moving novel...an instant classic, a book that will be read, discussed and taught beyond the rest of our lives" ( Chicago Tribune), from the critically acclaimed author of A Gathering of Old Men and The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman. " A Lesson Before Dying reconfirms Ernest J. Gaines's position as an important American writer. " --Boston Globe " Enormously moving.... Gaines unerringly evokes the place and time about which he writes ." --Los Angeles Times "A quietly moving novel [that] takes us back to a place we've been before to impart a lesson for living." -- San Francisco Chronicle, "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 .
LC Classification NumberPS3557.A355L47
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