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A Lesson Before Dying:

A Novel
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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Sep 28, 1997 - Fiction - 272 pages
From the author of A Gathering of Old Men and The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman comes a deep and compassionate novel. 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.

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User Review  - June Ahern - Goodreads

I gave this book a five star because of the way I was deeply touched by the story and characters. It is authentic portrait of human failings, hopes and the ability to rise above adversities. In the ... Read full review

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User Review  - Rebecca Johnson - Goodreads

My 17 year-old son read this book and it left an impression on him. The book got a 4 in my eyes for several reasons... Things I didn't like: 1. I think in today's society...Jefferson would have been ... Read full review

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A Lesson Before Dying
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In A Lesson Before Dying, there are many similarities between Ernest Gaines’ life and his novel. This book is set at Henry Pichot’s plantation. ...
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'A Lesson Before Dying': Power and Pedantry - washingtonpost.com
Two mighty tall walls confine the characters in Round House Theatre's "A Lesson Before Dying" -- walls of injustice, walls of despair.
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Louisiana Foodways in Ernest Gaines's A Lesson Before Dying
Ernest Gaines is a prolific Louisiana author. This article examines foodways in his 1993 novel, A Lesson Before Dying.
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The protagonist of A Lesson Before Dying works at a thankless job until he finds a way to love it. Is that so different from his creator, who plugged away ...
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Wildly Disparate: "A Lesson Before Dying" by Ernest Gaines
I finished "A Lesson Before Dying" by Ernest Gaines yesterday. And though Jefferson did indeed die, he isn’t dead. He joins the other literary characters ...
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About the author (1997)

Ernest J. Gaines was born on a plantation in Pointe Coupee Parish, near New Roads, Louisiana, which is the Bayonne of all his fictional works.  His previous books include A Gathering of Old Men, In My Father's House, A Long Day in November, The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, Bloodline, Of Love and Dust, and Catherine Carmier. He divides his time between San Francisco and the University of Southwestern Louisiana in Lafayette, where he is writer-in-residence.

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