A Lesson Before Dying
A Lesson Before Dying won the National Book Critics Circle Award. 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.
- Publisher
- Vintage
- ISBN-13
- 9781400077700
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Awards
- National Book Critics Circle Award for FictionWonMajor(1993)
Other awarded books from Ernest J. Gaines
Ernest J. Gaines has no other awarded or shortlisted books yet.
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