{"product_id":"a-lesson-before-dying-oprahs-book-club","title":"A Lesson Before Dying | Paperback","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":"The Book Dragon","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43385295601782,"sku":"9780375702709","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0696\/1050\/4310\/files\/IMG_2379.webp?v=1781911354","url":"https:\/\/thebookdragonstore.com\/products\/a-lesson-before-dying-oprahs-book-club","provider":"The Book Dragon","version":"1.0","type":"link"}