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GAINES ERNEST J - GEBRAUCHT A LESSON BEFORE DYI...

An Oprah Book Club selection Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction
Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize  In a small Cajun community in the late 1940s  a young black man
named Jefferson witnesses a liquor store shootout in which three men are killed. The only
survivor  he is convicted of murder and sentenced to death.   Gaines explores the deep
prejudice of the American South in the tradition of Harper Lee's To Kill A Mockingbird and Toni
Morrison's Beloved . A Lesson Before Dying is a richly compassionate and deeply moving novel 
the story of a young black man sentenced to death for a murder he did not commit  and a teacher
who hopes to ease his burden before the execution.

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