Lesson Before Dying, A
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
185242723X
ISBN 13
9781852427238
Category
Literary Fiction
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Publication Year
2001
Pages
256
Subject
English Contemporary Fiction
Abstract
In a small Cajun community in the late 1940s, a young black man named Jefferson is an unwitting party to a liquor store shootout in which three men are killed. The only survivor, he is convicted of murder and sentenced to death. Gaines explores the deep prejudice of the American South in the tradition of Harper Lee?s To Kill A Mockingbird and Toni Morrison?s Beloved. A Lesson Before Dying is a richly compassionate and deeply moving novel, the story of a young black man sentenced to death for a murder he did not commit, and a teacher who seeks to share his wisdom before the execution.
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