From the author of A Gathering of Old Men and The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman comes a deep and compassionate novel, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. A young man who returns to 1940s Cajun country to teach visits a black youth on death row for a crime he didn't commit. Together they come to understand the heroism of resisting.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 09/28/1997
ISBN: 9780375702709
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.10w x 0.70d
Award: National Book Critics Circle Award - Winner
Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 10287 / Lesson Before Dying
Reading Level: 4.4 / Interest Level: Upper Grade / Point Value: 11