Ernest J. Gaines A Lesson Before Dying
Last updated: October 29, 2019
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This story about a young black man sentenced to the electric chair for a murder he didn't commit tackles antebellum attitudes and racial tension. Its lessons are, unfortunately, still poignant today.
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From the author of A Gathering of Old Men and The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman comes a deep and compassionate novel, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. A young man who returns to 1940s Cajun country to teach visits a black youth on death row for a crime he didn’t commit. Together they come to understand the heroism of resisting.