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A Lesson Before Dying is a novel by writer Ernest Gaines. Set in Louisiana in the 1940s, it is a story about a man falsely accused of murder.
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- Author: Ernest Gaines
- Genre: Fiction
- Publication Date: 1993
- Publisher: Vintage
- Pages: 272
- ISBN 0375702709
- Awards/Distinctions: Won National Book Critics Circle Award and nominated for the Pulitzer Prize
- Adaptations: Movie
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A LESSON BEFORE DYING - $29.26
On a bright sunny day in 1948, Jefferson (Mekhi Phifer) sets off down the road to go catch some fish; by the end of the movie's opening sequence, he is the one who's been caught, and wrongly accused of the murder of a white shopkeeper. Raci...
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In a small Cajun community in the late 1940s, a young black man named Jefferson is an unwilling party to a liquor store shootout in which three men are killed. The only survivor, he is convicted of murder and sentenced to death.
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A young man convicted of a murder he did not commit has been sentenced to die. Now it falls upon a teacher to enrich a life he cannont save and in so doing somehow redeem his own by teaching one young man. Studio: Hbo Home Video Release D...
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6 cassettes / approx. 8 hoursUnabridgedRead by Jay LongWinner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction"A Lesson Before Dying reconfirms Ernest J. Gaines's position as an i...
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FYI - My english class is reviewing Ernest Gaines, "A Lesson Before Dying" it is a great book & movie #GainesLDB
@briggsdonna | November 09, 2009 04:16 AM -
going to read chapters 11-13 out of A Lesson Before Dying for english :/
@xdaniellyx | November 08, 2009 10:03 PM -
RT @CashCapone anybody read books??? what are yall reading ? ..."A Lesson Before Dying"-Ernest J. Gaines
@MizzFr3da | November 07, 2009 01:08 AM -
A LESSON BEFORE DYING: ERNEST J. GAINES http://bookmooch.com/B000RWMZN6 #shellyvankirk #US
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