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A Lesson Before Dying
by
Ernest J. Gaines
Announced
on September 22, 1997
Book Reviews
"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
'A Lesson Before Dying reconfirms Ernest J. Gaines's position as an
important American writer."
— Boston Globe
"Enormously
moving ... Gaines unerringly evokes the place and time about which
he writes."
— Newsday
"A
quietly moving novel (that) takes us back to a place we've been
before to impart a lesson for living."
— San Francisco Chronicle
"The lesson is valuable and apt, presented in the modest but forceful
terms that we have come to expect from Ernest J. Gaines."
— Washington
Post
"Gaines has a gift for evoking the tenor of life in a bygone era
and making it seem vivid and immediate as something that happened
only yesterday."
—Christian Science Monitor
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