A Lesson Before Dying by GAINES ERNEST J. EPUISE, GAINES ERNEST J. EPUISE

256 pages first pub 1993 (editions)

fiction classics historical emotional reflective slow-paced
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In a small Cajun community in the late 1940s, a young black man named Jefferson is an unwitting party to a liquor store shootout in which three men are killed. The only survivor, he is convicted of murder and sentenced to death. Gaines explores th...

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