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The best black writer in America" joins the Library of America with a volume collecting 4 landmark novels about race and the legacy of slavery in America (TIME) Includes A Lesson Before Dying, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction and an Oprah Book Club selection Ernest J. Gaines joins the Library of America with this volume gathering 4 essential masterpieces. Set on the former slave plantation in Louisiana on which Gain...

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A courthouse shooting leads a young reporter to uncover the long story of race and power in his small town and the relationship between the white sheriff and the black man who "whipped children" to keep order-in the final novella by the beloved Ernest J. Gaines. After Brady Sims pulls out a gun in a courtroom and shoots his own son, who has just been convicted of robbery and murder, he asks only to be allowed two hours before he'll give himsel...

A compelling debut love story set in a deceptively bucolic Louisiana countryside, where blacks, Cajuns, and whites maintain an uneasy coexistence--by the award-winning author of A Lesson Before Dying and The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman. After living in San Francisco for ten years, Jackson returns home to his benefactor, Aunt Charlotte. Surrounded by family and old friends, he discovers that his bonds to them have been irreparably rent b...

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A funny and affectionate story set on an eventful day on a sugarcane plantation in the 1940s rural South.

Themenschwerpunkt "The African-American Experience"In einfachem und eindrucksvollem Stil wird die Geschichte des 21-jährigen Jefferson erzählt, der unschuldig im repressiven Louisiana des Jahres 1948 zum Tode verurteilt wird. Sein Verteidiger plädiert auf schuldunfähig, indem er Jefferson als , Untermenschen' diffamiert. Der Dorflehrer Wiggins will Jefferson vor seiner unausweichlichen Hinrichtung seine Würde zurückgeben.(Eine DVD ist bei Ling...

This majestic, moving novel is an instant classic, a book that will be read, discussed and taught beyond the rest of our lives."-Chicago Tribune Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, A Lesson Before Dying is 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. From the crit...

An Oprah Book Club selectionWinner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for FictionNominated for a Pulitzer PrizeIn a small Cajun community in the late 1940s, a young black man named Jefferson witnesses a liquor store shootout in which three men are killed. The only survivor, he is convicted of murder and sentenced to death. Gaines explores the deep prejudice of the American South in the tradition of Harper Lee's To Kill A Mockingbird and...

In a small Louisiana community in the 1940s, a young black man is about to go to the electric chair for murder. As Grant Wiggins counsels the young man, he learns an important lesson about heroism. A Lesson Before Dying is a wrenching portrait of a southern town crippled by racism.

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A powerful depiction of racial tensions arising over the death of a Cajun farmer at the hands of a black man--set on a Louisiana sugarcane plantation in the 1970s. The Village Voice called A Gathering of Old Men "the best-written novel on Southern race relations in over a decade.

Het alom gelauwerde Een les voor het sterven beschrijft de relatie tussen een jonge zwarte man op death row en zijn docent in het Amerika van de jaren veertig. Als de zwarte jongeman Jefferson ter dood veroordeeld wordt nadat hij ten onrechte beschuldigd is van de moord op een blanke cafehouder, neemt dorpsleraar Grant Wiggins onder druk van zijn omgeving de taak op zich om hem op death row te begeleiden. Wiggins is een bittere, voor een Afro...

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Set on a Louisiana sugar cane plantation in the 1970s, "A Gathering of Old Men" is a powerful depiction of racial tensions arising over the death of a Cajun farmer at the hands of a black man. "The best written novel on Southern race relations in over a decade".--"Village Voice".

Si può insegnare qualcosa a un ragazzo che attende di essere giustiziato? Ambientato in una piccola comunità Cajun verso la fine degli anni '40, "Una lezione prima di morire" è la storia di Jefferson, giovane nero accusato ingiustamente di omicidio e condannato a morte da una giuria di bianchi che lo considera poco più che un animale. Grant Wiggins è un giovane insegnante appena tornato nella piantagione in cui è cresciuto. Combattuto fra il d...

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Collections of interviews with notable modern writers