{"product_id":"a-lesson-before-dying-oprahs-book-club-by-ernest-j-gaines","title":"A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines","description":"\u003cp\u003eNATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER • 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"An instant classic.\" —Chicago Tribune\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA “majestic, moving novel...an instant classic, a book that will be read, discussed and taught beyond the rest of our lives\" (Chicago Tribune), from the critically acclaimed author of A Gathering of Old Men and The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A Lesson Before Dying reconfirms Ernest J. Gaines's position as an important American writer.\" —Boston Globe\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Enormously moving.... Gaines unerringly evokes the place and time about which he writes.\" —Los Angeles Times\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A quietly moving novel [that] takes us back to a place we've been before to impart a lesson for living.” —San Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Express","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43602378063946,"sku":"6660l","price":6.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/9101\/8826\/files\/6660l_1222a71d-c8b9-4674-9d1e-41cb4d2cd44d.jpg?v=1779080291","url":"https:\/\/www.bookexpress.nz\/products\/a-lesson-before-dying-oprahs-book-club-by-ernest-j-gaines","provider":"Book Express","version":"1.0","type":"link"}