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A Lesson Before Dying

Audiobook

Based on Ernest J. Gaines’ National Book Critics Circle Award-winning novel, A LESSON BEFORE DYING is set in a small Louisiana Cajun community in the late 1940’s. Jefferson, a young illiterate black man, is falsely convicted of murder and is sentenced to death. Grant Wiggins, the plantation schoolteacher, agrees to talk with the condemned man. The disheartened Wiggins had once harbored dreams of escaping from his impoverished youth, yet he returned to his home town after university, to teach children whose lives seemed as unpromising as Jefferson’s. The two men forge a bond as they come to understand what it means to resist and defy one’s own fate.


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Publisher: L.A. Theatre Works Edition: Unabridged

OverDrive Listen audiobook

  • ISBN: 9781580814706
  • File size: 40361 KB
  • Release date: February 8, 2007
  • Duration: 01:24:05

MP3 audiobook

  • ISBN: 9781580814706
  • File size: 40371 KB
  • Release date: February 8, 2007
  • Duration: 01:24:05
  • Number of parts: 2

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OverDrive Listen audiobook
MP3 audiobook

subjects

Drama Fiction

Languages

English

Based on Ernest J. Gaines’ National Book Critics Circle Award-winning novel, A LESSON BEFORE DYING is set in a small Louisiana Cajun community in the late 1940’s. Jefferson, a young illiterate black man, is falsely convicted of murder and is sentenced to death. Grant Wiggins, the plantation schoolteacher, agrees to talk with the condemned man. The disheartened Wiggins had once harbored dreams of escaping from his impoverished youth, yet he returned to his home town after university, to teach children whose lives seemed as unpromising as Jefferson’s. The two men forge a bond as they come to understand what it means to resist and defy one’s own fate.


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