A Lesson Before Dying

Beschreibung

An Oprah Book Club selection<BR>Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction<BR>Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize<BR><BR>In a small Cajun community in the late 1940s, a young black man named Jefferson witnesses a liquor store shootout in which three men are killed. The only survivor, he is convicted of murder and sentenced to death. <BR><BR>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 hopes to ease his burden before the execution.

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