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A Lesson Before Dying
Author | Ernest J. Gaines |
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Publisher | Knopf Publishing Group |
Publication date | 1993 |
Media type | Print (paperback) |
Pages | 256 pp |
Likewise, people ask, how long does it take to read a lesson before dying?
4 hours and 16 minutes
Similarly, is a Lesson Before Dying a good book?
"A Lesson Before Dying" is a decent book that can teach everyone who chooses to read it a lesson.
Book Summary Set in the fictional community of Bayonne, Louisiana, in the late 1940s, A Lesson Before Dying tells the story of Jefferson, a twenty-one-year-old uneducated black field worker wrongfully accused and convicted of the robbery and murder of a white man, and sentenced to death by electrocution.