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A Lesson Before Dying
by Gaines, Ernest J
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About This Item
Norwalk, Connecticut: Easton Press, 1998. Collector's Edition. Full Leather. New/No Jacket as Issued. A very handsome dark green leather Collector's Edition of Ernest Gaines' masterpiece signed by him on the book's signature page. In the original shrinkwrap with moire silk endpapers, gold-gilt cover designs and page edges, and bound-in silk bookmark. Includes a Certificate of Authenticity from Easton Press. Set in a small Louisiana Cajun community in the late 1940s,"A Lesson Before Dying" portrays the story of two men as they form an unavoidable bond of destinies: Jefferson, a young, illiterate black man, who is falsely accused and sentenced to death for a liquor store shoot out; and Grant Wiggins, who has returned to the plantation school to teach after a university education. A study in compassion and human understanding. Gaines published his first short story in 1956. Since then he has written eight books of fiction, including "Catherine Carmier," "Of Love and Dust," "Bloodline," The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman," " A Long Day in November," " In My Father's House," and "A Gathering of Old Men.
Synopsis
A Lesson Before Dying was published in 1993 by author Ernest J. Gaines. This novel provides a glimpse into the Jim Crow South between WWII and leading up to the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s. Grant is the only formally-educated black man in the area and is frustrated over the limitations set upon him because of the color of his skin, as well as the overwhelming obligations to use his knowledge to help his townspeople. It is based on the true story of Willie Francis, a young black American man best known for surviving a failed execution by a malfunctioned electrocution in the state of Louisiana, during 1945 and 1947. It was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize and won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1993. It was also the October 1997 choice of Oprah's Book Club.
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- Bookseller
- Parrish Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2315
- Title
- A Lesson Before Dying
- Author
- Gaines, Ernest J
- Format/Binding
- Full Leather
- Book Condition
- New New
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket as Issued
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Collector's Edition
- Publisher
- Easton Press
- Place of Publication
- Norwalk, Connecticut
- Date Published
- 1998
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