Set in a small Cajun community in the late 1940s <strong>A Lesson Before Dying</strong> is anenormously moving Los Angeles Times novel of one man condemned to d... » 

Set in a small Cajun community in the late 1940s A Lesson Before Dying is anenormously moving Los Angeles Times novel of one man condemned to die fora crime he did not commit and a young man who visits him in his cell. In theend the two men forge a bond as they both come to understand the simpleheroism of resistingand defyingthe expected. Winner of the National BookCritics Circle Award for Fiction. «