Based on Ernest J. Gaines National Book Critics Circle Award-winning novel, A LESSON BEFORE DYING is set in a small Louisiana Cajun community in the late 1940s. Jefferson, a young illiterate black man, is falsely convicted of murder and is sentenced to death. Grant Wiggins, the plantation schoolteacher, agrees to talk with the condemned man. The disheartened Wiggins had once harbored dreams of escaping from his impoverished youth, yet he returned to his home town after university, to teach children whose lives seemed as ...
Read More
Based on Ernest J. Gaines National Book Critics Circle Award-winning novel, A LESSON BEFORE DYING is set in a small Louisiana Cajun community in the late 1940s. Jefferson, a young illiterate black man, is falsely convicted of murder and is sentenced to death. Grant Wiggins, the plantation schoolteacher, agrees to talk with the condemned man. The disheartened Wiggins had once harbored dreams of escaping from his impoverished youth, yet he returned to his home town after university, to teach children whose lives seemed as unpromising as Jeffersons. The two men forge a bond as they come to understand what it means to resist and defy ones own fate.
Read Less
Add this copy of A Lesson Before Dying (Library Edition Audio Cds) to cart. $55.35, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Hialeah, FL, UNITED STATES, published 2002 by L.A. Theatre Works.
The book was was great & full of impact! I thoroughly enjoyed it.
I highly recommend it!
phamvuquan
Nov 12, 2009
very good!
The pages are white ,look like a new book! I am definitely satisfied with it!
fungirl503
Apr 1, 2007
falsely accused
this story tells how a young black man is falsely accused of a crime and placed in death row. It also shows how the blacks were mistreated during this time. Good story. Sad ending.
