\u003cp\u003eAn Oprah Book Club selection\u003cbr\u003eWinner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction\u003cbr\u003eNominated for a Pulitzer Prize\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGaines explores the deep prejudice of the American South in the tradition of Harper Lee's \u003ci\u003eTo Kill A Mockingbird\u003c/i\u003e and Toni Morrison's \u003ci\u003eBeloved\u003c/i\u003e. \u003ci\u003eA Lesson Before Dying\u003c/i\u003e is a richly compassionate and deeply moving novel, the story of a young black man sentenced to death for a murder he did not commit, and a teacher who hopes to ease his burden before the execution.\u003c/p\u003e
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