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A Lesson Before Dying (Oprah's Book Club) (1st Edition) by Ernest J. Gaines Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 1997 ISBN-10: 0-375-70270-9 / 0375702709 ISBN-13: 978-0-375-70270-9 / 9780375702709 A Lesson Before Dying, is set in a small Cajun community in the late 1940s. Jefferson, a young black man, is an unwitting party to a liquor store shoot out in which three men are killed; the only survivor, he is convicted of murder and sentenced to death. Grant Wiggins, who left his hometown for t |