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A Lesson Before Dying
Authored by Ernest J. Gaines
Narrated by Lionel Mark Smith, Roger Guenveur Smith
Abridged

0:00 Intro
0:03 A Lesson Before Dying
0:32 Chapter 1
10:20 Chapter 2
10:32 Outro

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BOOK DESCRIPTION

This Pulitzer Prize winning book follows the real-life story of the friendship formed between a disheartened schoolteacher and a Black man falsely accused of murder in Jim Crow era Louisiana.

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 hometown after university, to teach children whose lives seemed as unpromising as Jefferson's. The two men forge a bond as they come to understand what it means to resist and defy one's fate.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Ernest Gaines was born on a plantation in Pointe Coupee Parish near New Roads, Louisiana, which is the Bayonne of all his fictional works. He is a writer-in-residence emeritus at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Gaines received a MacArthur Fellowship in 1993 for his lifetime achievements; was named a Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, one of France's highest decorations, in 1996; and was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2004. He and his wife, Dianne, live in Oscar, Louisiana.

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AUDIOBOOK DETAILS

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Language: English
Publisher: Hachette Audio
Published on: April 1, 2006
ISBN: 9781594837647
Duration: 2 hr, 58 min
Genres: Literary Criticism / General

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