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A Lesson Before Dying

ISBN: 0375702709

Title: A Lesson Before Dying

Author: Ernest J. Gaines

KDL Description:

A frustrated teacher in a small Cajun community, whose education is being underutilized, finds his own purpose in helping bring meaning to the last days of a young man due to be executed. In teaching one person to die with dignity, he redeems himself.

Amazon Description:

From the author of A Gathering of Old Men and The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman comes a deep and compassionate novel. 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.