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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Random House
Publication date
September 1, 1997
Binding
Cassette/Spoken Word
Edition
Unabridged
Book category
Adult Fiction
ISBN-13
9780375402586
ISBN-10
0375402586
Dimensions
2.50 by 4.25 by 6.25 in.
Weight
0.60 lbs.
Availability§
Publisher Out of Stock Indefinitely
Original list price
$32.95
Other format details
audio
§As reported by publisher
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Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: 6 cassettes / approx. 8 hours
Unabridged
Read by Jay Long
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction
"A Lesson Before Dying reconfirms Ernest J. Gaines's position as an important American writer."
--Boston Globe
A Lesson Before Dying is set in a small Cajun community in the late 1940s.  Jefferson, a young black man, 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.  Grant Wiggins, who left his hometown for the university, has returned to the plantation school to teach.  As he struggles with his decision whether to stay or escape to another state, his aunt and Jefferson's godmother persuade him to visit Jefferson in his cell and impart his learning and his pride to Jefferson before his death.  In the end, the two men forge a bond as they both come to understand the simple heroism of resisting -- and defying -- the unexpected.
Ernest J.. Gaines brings to this novel the same rich sense of place, the same deep understanding of the human psyche, and the same compassion for a people and their struggle that have informed his previous, highly praised works of fiction.
"Enormously moving . . . Gaines unerringly evokes the place and time about which he writes." -- Los Angeles Times
Unabridged
Read by Jay Long
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction
"A Lesson Before Dying reconfirms Ernest J. Gaines's position as an important American writer."
--Boston Globe
A Lesson Before Dying is set in a small Cajun community in the late 1940s.  Jefferson, a young black man, 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.  Grant Wiggins, who left his hometown for the university, has returned to the plantation school to teach.  As he struggles with his decision whether to stay or escape to another state, his aunt and Jefferson's godmother persuade him to visit Jefferson in his cell and impart his learning and his pride to Jefferson before his death.  In the end, the two men forge a bond as they both come to understand the simple heroism of resisting -- and defying -- the unexpected.
Ernest J.. Gaines brings to this novel the same rich sense of place, the same deep understanding of the human psyche, and the same compassion for a people and their struggle that have informed his previous, highly praised works of fiction.
"Enormously moving . . . Gaines unerringly evokes the place and time about which he writes." -- Los Angeles Times
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