From the author of A Gathering of Old Men and The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman comes a deep and compassionate novel, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. 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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A Lesson Before Dying
von Ernest J. Gaines
From the author of A Gathering of Old Men and The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman comes a deep and compassionate novel, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. 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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Rezension von Carlos R. DiazThat was his story. We all have voices, including the condemned. Jefferson, a simpleton, is swiftly tried and convicted, getting the chair, circa 1940s Louisiana. Before his death sentence is carried out, he's visited by Grant Wiggins, a local school teacher who longs to get out of Dodge. He's charged with the responsibility of making a man out of him before he takes his final walk. The dialogue is perfect in its rich colloquial prose. This is a fine story of empathy, what we gain after reading good, quality fiction. That is all.