A Lesson Before Dying: A Novel (Vintage Contemporaries) - Softcover

Gaines, Ernest J.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0375702709 ISBN 13: 9780375702709

Verlag: Vintage, 1997

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Book by Gaines Ernest J

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"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

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&;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.

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• Verlag: Vintage
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0375702709
• ISBN 13: 9780375702709
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 272