A Lesson Before Dying (1993) - Ernest J. Gaines by Unknown, Ernest J. Gaines
Length: 3 hrs and 3 mins Abridged Audiobook Release date: 12-16-99 Publisher: Hachette Audio, 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 didnt commit. Together they come to understand the heroism of resisting., Jefferson is an innocent and unwitting party to a deadly liquor store shoot-out in the 1940s. As the only survivor, he is tried and convicted of murder and sentenced to death. When Jeffersons own attorney claims that executing him would be tantamount to killing a hog, his incensed godmother, Miss Emma, turns to teacher Grant Wiggins, pleading with him to gain access to the jailed youth and help him to face his death by electrocution with dignity., Grant Wiggins, a university-trained teacher at the plantation school, feels mingled love, loyalty and hatred for the poor plantation community where he was born and raise
General Fiction
A Lesson Before Dying (1993) - Ernest J. Gaines
Unknown, Ernest J. Gaines
Category: General Fiction
Tags: General Fiction, Adults
Length: 3 hrs and 3 mins Abridged Audiobook Release date: 12-16-99 Publisher: Hachette Audio, 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 didnt commit. Together they come to understand the heroism of resisting., Jefferson is an innocent and unwitting party to a deadly liquor store shoot-out in the 1940s. As the only survivor, he is tried and convicted of murder and sentenced to death. When Jeffersons own attorney claims that executing him would be tantamount to killing a hog, his incensed godmother, Miss Emma, turns to teacher Grant Wiggins, pleading with him to gain access to the jailed youth and help him to face his death by electrocution with dignity., Grant Wiggins, a university-trained teacher at the plantation school, feels mingled love, loyalty and hatred for the poor plantation community where he was born and raise
