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A Lesson Before Dying
Contributor(s): Gaines, Ernest J. (Author)

ISBN: 0375702709 ISBN-13: 9780375702709
Publisher: Vintage

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Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: September 1997
Annotation: 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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Additional Information

BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | African American - Historical
- Fiction | Family Life - General

Dewey: FIC

LCCN: 93042201

Lexile Measure: 750(Not Available)

Series: Vintage Contemporaries

Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.2" W x 7.9" L (0.45 lbs) 272 pages

Themes:
- Chronological Period - 1940's
- Cultural Region - Gulf Coast
- Cultural Region - South
- Ethnic Orientation - African American
- Geographic Orientation - Louisiana
- Catalog Heading - Language Arts
- Curriculum Strand - Language Arts

Features: Ikids, Price on Product

Awards: National Book Critics Circle Award, Winner, Fiction, 1993

Accelerated Reader Info

Quiz #: 10287
Reading Level: 4.4 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 11.0

Descriptions, Reviews, Etc.

Publisher Description:

"This majestic, moving novel is an instant classic, a book that will be read, discussed and taught beyond the rest of our lives."--Chicago Tribune

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, A Lesson Before Dying is a deep and compassionate novel about a young man who returns to 1940s Cajun country to visit a black youth on death row for a crime he didn't commit. Together they come to understand the heroism of resisting.

From the critically acclaimed author of A Gathering of Old Men and The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman.

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