Gaines, Ernest J., 1933-
A lesson before dying / Ernest J. Gaines. -- New York : A.A. Knopf : Distribued by Random House, Inc., 1993. -- 1 online resource (256 pages). -- (Oprah's book club). -- Resumé: In his first novel in ten years, Ernest Gaines, the highly acclaimed author of the best-selling The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, brings us a wrenching story of death and identity in a small Cajun Louisiana community in the late 1940s. A young black named Jefferson is a reluctant party in a shoot-out in a liquor store in which the three other men involved are all killed, including the white store owner. Jefferson, the only survivor, is accused of murder. At the trial, the essence of the defense is that the accused, a lowly form of existence lacking even a modicum of intelligence, is incapable of premeditated murder. His lawyer argues: "Why, I would just as soon put a hog in the electric chair as this." But Jefferson is condemned to death. -- ISBN : 9781400077700 (online). -- 1400077702 (online). -- 0679414770. -- 9780679414773. -- 9780375702709. -- 0375702709.
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