You can teach something to a guy who expects to be executed? Set in a small Cajun community in the late '40s, "A lesson before dying" is the story of Jefferson, a young black man wrongly accused of murder and sentenced to death by a jury of white men who consider it little more than an animal . Grant Wiggins is a young teacher just got back on the plantation where he grew up. Torn between duty to stay and want to go away, Grant will leave and will convince the aunt to give the condemned man his last lesson. Together they come to understand the simple heroism of resisting what is inevitable.
The author
Ernest James Gaines was born January 15, 1933, is an American author. His works were read in the classrooms of colleges and translated into many languages, including French, English, German, Russian and Chinese. Four of his works have become television movies. His 1993 novel, A Lesson before dying , won the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction . Gaines was awarded the National Humanities Medal, and placed in ' Order of Arts and Letters as a Chevalier .
Title: A lesson before dying
Author: Ernest James Gaines
Publisher: Mattioli 1885
Collection: Experience. Borders
Publication: 2010 (the first in 1993)
ISBN: 8862611358
Pages: 253
Price: € 18.00
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