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A Lesson Before Dying
(Paperback, 1997)
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Author: Ernest Gaines
In this story of injustice and redemption set in rural Louisiana during the late 1940s, Grant Wiggi...
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$12.95
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Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 0375702709
ISBN-13: 9780375702709
Oct 1997
Publisher: Vintage Books
256 pages
Language: English |
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Synopsis
In this story of injustice and redemption set in rural Louisiana during the late 1940s, Grant Wiggins, a backwoods schoolmaster, is asked visit a young black prisoner on death row. Jefferson, the prisoner, was falsely accused and convicted of murder and is sentenced to hang, and Wiggins's job, once he realizes the impossibility of overturning the verdict, is to prepare the boy for death. Although, as a nonbeliever, Wiggins at first finds himself in competition with the minister for the boy's attention, he eventually comes to see that the cultivation of any instinct of love--human or religious--is the essence of salvation, both for Jefferson and himself. Ernest J. Gaines's morally wrenching novel has become a classic of American literature.
| Size | | Length: | 256 pages | | Height: | 8.3 in | | Width: | 5.3 in | | Thickness: | 0.8 in | | Weight: | 7.2 oz |
Industry Reviews
"Like Joyce in his early stories, Gaines is writing here about moments of illumination and about what it means to be human...a strongly felt and--in the best sense--ambiguous novel."
Newsday (Long Island, N.Y.) - Francine Prose
"This is a painful story told with spare eloquence, and the resonance it creates long after one's reading gives it a classic dimension."
Styron
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Other Editions
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Hardcover, 1993 - $0.75 Save 97%
Paperback, 1994 - $0.75 Save 93%
Hardcover, 1997 - $0.75 Save 97%
Hardcover, 1994 - $45.28
Audio, 1995 - $0.75 Save 95%
Audio, 1997 - $4.50 Save 86%
Audio, 2001 - $5.02 Save 36%
Paperback, 1994 - Not in stock. Add to Wish List
Hardcover, 1998 - Not in stock. Add to Wish List
Audio, 2002 - $8.37 Save 60%
Hardcover, 1999 - $3.54 Save 85%
Audio, 2005 - $18.82 Save 37%
Hardcover, 1994 - $14.99 Save 32%
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