A Lesson Before Dying A Novel. Winner of: National Book Critics Circle Awards

"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."  Los Angeles Times

A quietly moving novel [that] takes us back to a place we've been before to impart a lesson for living.   San Francisco Chronicle