A Lesson Before Dying

1993 novel by Ernest J. Gaines

Published: 1995
Form: novel
Country of origin: United States
Language: English
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
award received: Rochester Reads
first line: I WAS NOT THERE, yet I was there.
has edition or translation: A Lesson Before Dying
instance of: literary work
title: A Lesson Before Dying

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A Lesson Before Dying is a 1993 novel by Ernest J. Gaines. The novel is based on the true story of Willie Francis, a young Black American man best known for surviving a failed electrocution in the state of Louisiana, in 1946. It won the National Book Critics Circle Award.

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