| A Lesson Before Dying Contributor(s): Gaines, Ernest J. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0375702709 ISBN-13: 9780375702709 Publisher: Vintage OUR PRICE: $14.40 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 1997 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | African American - Historical - Fiction | Family Life - General |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 93042201 |
| Lexile Measure: 750 |
| Series: Vintage Contemporaries |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.2" W x 7.9" (0.45 lbs) 272 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1940's - Cultural Region - Gulf Coast - Cultural Region - South - Ethnic Orientation - African American - Geographic Orientation - Louisiana - Catalog Heading - Language Arts - Curriculum Strand - Language Arts |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 10287 Reading Level: 4.4 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 11.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: "This majestic, moving novel is an instant classic, a book that will be read, discussed and taught beyond the rest of our lives."--Chicago Tribune |