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 Winner of the National Book Critics Circle
Award A Lesson Before Dying is a deep and compassionate novel about a young man who returns to
1940s Cajun country to visit a black youth on death row for a crime he didn't commit. Together
they come to understand the heroism of resisting. From the critically acclaimed author of A
Gathering of Old Men and The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman.
