A Lesson Before Dying (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780785769811)

Set in a small Cajun community in the late 1940s, "A Lesson Before Dying" is an "enormously moving" ("Los Angeles Times") novel of one man condemned to die for a crime he did not commit and a young man who visits him in his cell. In the end, the two men forge a bond as they both come to understand the simple heroism of resisting--and defying--the expected. Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction.

Author: Ernest J. Gaines
ISBN-10: 0785769811
ISBN-13: 9780785769811
Publisher: Turtleback Books
Language: English
Published: 09/28/1997
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.69lbs
Size: 8.04h x 5.16w x 0.81d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 4.4
Point Value: 11
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 10287 / Lesson Before Dying