LESSON BEFORE DYING

Oprah Book Club® Selection, September 1997: In a small Cajun community in 1940s Louisiana, a young black man is about to go to the electric chair for murder. A white shopkeeper had died during a robbery gone bad; though the young man on trial had not been armed and had not pulled the trigger, in that time and place, there could be no doubt of the verdict or the penalty. "I was not there, yet I was there. No, I did not go to the trial, I did not hear the verdict, because I knew all the time...

Themenscherpunkt African AmericanIn einfachem und eindrucksvollem Stil wird die Geschichte des 21-jährigen Farbigen Jefferson erzählt der unschuldig im repressiven Louisana der 1940er Jahre zum Tode verurteilt wird. Sein Verteidiger plädiert auf schuldunfähig indem er Jefferson als Untermenschen diffamiert. Der Dorflehrer Grant will Jefferson vor seiner unausweichlichen Hinrichtung seine Würde zurückzugeben.

ERNEST J. GAINES - LESSON BEFORE DYING (Audio CD)

From the author of A Gathering of Old Men and The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman comes a deep and compassionate novel. A young man who returns to 1940s Cajun country to teach visits a black youth on death row for a crime he didn't commit. Together they come to understand the heroism of resisting.1994, 256 Seiten, Maße: 13,5 x 20,3 cm, Taschenbuch, Englisch