Product Description
by Ernest J. Gaines (Author)
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.
Number of Pages: 272
Dimensions: 0.81 x 8.04 x 5.16 IN
Publication Date: September 28, 1997
Accelerated Reader:
Quiz Name: Lesson Before Dying
Interest Level: Upper Grades, 9-12
Reading Level: 4.4
Point Value: 11
