A Lesson Before Dying (Audio Theatre Collection) (Serpent's Tail Classics) (Kennebec Large Print Perennial Favorites Collection)

by Ernest J. Gaines and Romulus Linney

Jay Long (Narrator)

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“This majestic, moving novel is an instant classic, a book that will be read, discussed and taught beyond the rest of our lives.”—Chicago Tribune

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, A Lesson Before Dying is a deep and compassionate novel about a young man who returns to 1940s Cajun country to visit a black youth on death row for a crime he didn't commit. Together they come to understand the heroism of resisting.

From the critically acclaimed author of A Gathering of Old Men and The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman.



  • ISBN10 0739323679
  • ISBN13 9780739323670
  • Publish Date 17 May 2005 (first published 23 March 1993)
  • Publish Status Out of Stock
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Random House Audio Publishing Group
  • Format Audiobook (CD)
  • Pages 7
  • Language English