This Book Talk special is a conversation between
author Ernest Gaines and host Clay Jenkinson.
Description:
Ernest Gaines sets his novel A Lesson Before Dying in back-country
Louisiana just after World War II. A local teacher, Grant Wiggins, is
conscripted by his aunt to offer lessons in manhood, and in dying, for
her friend's godson, Jefferson. Jefferson was just a witness, but he
was the only person left standing after an armed robbery in which a
white man was killed. To appease an outraged white community he is sentenced
to die in the electric chair.
This book is the featured book of the 2002
Read Washoe Read event.
Also
by this author:
In
My Father's House; Random House, Incorporated; June 1992
A Gathering of Old Men; Alfred
A Knopf; August 1984
Autobiography
of Miss Jane Pittman; Bantam Books, Incorporated; June 1972
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