num_pages: 256
description: From the author of A Gathering of Old Men and The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman comes a deep and compassionate novel. 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.
language: English
title: A Lesson Before Dying
titlecomplete: A Lesson Before Dying
genres: Fiction, Historical, School, Literature, Classics, Adult Fiction, Novels, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, African American
ratings_count: 58704
places: Louisiana
awards: awardedAt: 725875200000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: Fiction
publisher: Knopf