Lesson Before Dying

Set in a small Cajun community in the late 1940s, "A Lesson Before Dying" is an "enormously moving" ("Los Angeles Times") novel of one man condemned to die for a crime he did not commit and a young man who visits him in his cell. In the end, the two men forge a bond as they both come to understand the simple heroism of resisting--and defying--the expected. Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Turtleback Books
Published: 09/28/1997
ISBN: 9780785769811
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.69lbs
Size: 8.04h x 5.16w x 0.81d
Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 10287 / Lesson Before Dying
Reading Level: 4.4 / Interest Level: Upper Grade / Point Value: 11