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1993, ISBN: 9780679414773
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ISBN: 9780679414773
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1993, ISBN: 9780679414773
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1997, ISBN: 9780679414773
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997. Reprint . Soft cover. As New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Like New trade paperback., Alfred A. Knopf, 1997, 5
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ISBN: 9780679414773
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1993, ISBN: 9780679414773
Hardcover
New York: Knopf. A clean, sound, bright copy in like dust jacket, SIGNED by Gaines on title page. Thirteenth printing of the first edition of this incredibly popular novel by the author … More...
ISBN: 9780679414773
Knopf. Hardcover. GOOD. Spine creases, wear to binding and pages from reading. May contain limited notes, underlining or highlighting that does affect the text. Possible ex library copy… More...
1993, ISBN: 9780679414773
Knopf, 1993-03-23. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1.0591 in x 8.5315 in x 5.9882 in. This is a used book. It may contain highlighting/underlining and/or the book may show heavier signs of wear … More...
1997, ISBN: 9780679414773
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997. Reprint . Soft cover. As New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Like New trade paperback., Alfred A. Knopf, 1997, 5
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"I was not there, yet I was there. No, I did not go to the trial, I did not hear the verdict, because I knew all the time what it would be..." So begins Grant Wiggins, the narrator of Ernest J. Gaines's powerful exploration of race, injustice, and resistance, A Lesson Before Dying. If young Jefferson, the accused, is confined by the law to an iron-barred cell, Grant Wiggins is no less a prisoner of social convention. University educated, Grant has returned to the tiny plantation town of his youth, where the only job available to him is teaching in the small plantation church school. More than 75 years after the close of the Civil War, antebellum attitudes still prevail: African Americans go to the kitchen door when visiting whites and the two races are rigidly separated by custom and by law. Grant, trapped in a career he doesn't enjoy, eaten up by resentment at his station in life, and angered by the injustice he sees all around him, dreams of taking his girlfriend Vivian and leaving Louisiana forever. But when Jefferson is convicted and sentenced to die, his grandmother, Miss Emma, begs Grant for one last favor: to teach her grandson to die like a man.
As Grant struggles to impart a sense of pride to Jefferson before he must face his death, he learns an important lesson as well: heroism is not always expressed through action--sometimes the simple act of resisting the inevitable is enough. Populated by strong, unforgettable characters, Ernest J. Gaines's A Lesson Before Dying offers a lesson for a lifetime.
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EAN (ISBN-13): 9780679414773
ISBN (ISBN-10): 0679414770
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Publishing year: 1993
Publisher: Knopf
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Book author: ernest gaines
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