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Easton Press "A Lesson Before Dying" Ernest J. Gaines - Signed Limited Edition [Sealed]

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Easton Press "A Lesson Before Dying" Ernest J. Gaines - Signed Limited Edition [Sealed]
Easton Press "A Lesson Before Dying" Ernest J. Gaines - Signed Limited Edition [Sealed]
Easton Press "A Lesson Before Dying" Ernest J. Gaines - Signed Limited Edition [Sealed]
Easton Press "A Lesson Before Dying" Ernest J. Gaines - Signed Limited Edition [Sealed]
Easton Press "A Lesson Before Dying" Ernest J. Gaines - Signed Limited Edition [Sealed]
Easton Press "A Lesson Before Dying" Ernest J. Gaines - Signed Limited Edition [Sealed] Easton Press "A Lesson Before Dying" Ernest J. Gaines - Signed Limited Edition [Sealed] Easton Press "A Lesson Before Dying" Ernest J. Gaines - Signed Limited Edition [Sealed] Easton Press "A Lesson Before Dying" Ernest J. Gaines - Signed Limited Edition [Sealed]
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Personally signed by Ernest J. Gaines on a special title page.

Norwalk, CT. Signed Limited Edition. No dust-jacket as issued. As New. Sealed. The condition is of the highest quality. Includes extra unattached bookplate for your own personalization.

Enhance your library with this luxurious leather bound heirloom from Easton Press. A high quality book that also makes the perfect unique gift. Includes COA to guarantee signature authenticity. A uniquely signed collectible from Easton Press, accented with 22kt gold, and manufactured to last generations.

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 the university, has returned to the plantation school to teach. As he struggles with his decision whether to stay or escape to another state, his aunt and Jefferson's godmother persuade him to visit Jefferson in his cell and impart his learning and his pride to Jefferson before his death. In the end, the two men forge a bond as they both come to understand the simple heroism of resisting and defying the expected.

Ernest J. Gaines brings to this novel the same rich sense of place, the same deep understanding of the human psyche, and the same compassion for a people and their struggle that have unformed his previous, highly praised works of fiction.

Features

Includes all the classic Easton Press qualities:

* Premium Leather
* Silk Moire Endleaves
* Distinctive Cover Design
* Hubbed Spine, Accented in Real 22KT Gold
* Satin Ribbon Page Marker
* Gilded Page Edges
* Long-lasting, High Quality Acid-neutral Paper
* Smyth-sewn Pages for Strength and Durability
* Beautiful Illustrations

About The Author

Ernest James Gaines (born January 15, 1933) is an African-American author whose works have been taught in college classrooms and translated into many languages, including French, Spanish, German, Russian and Chinese. Four of his works have been made into television movies.

His 1993 novel, A Lesson Before Dying, won the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction. Gaines has been a MacArthur Foundation fellow, awarded the National Humanities Medal, and inducted into the Fren was among the fifth generation of his sharecropper family to be born on a plantation in Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana. This became the setting and premise for many of his later works. He was the eldest of 12 children, raised by his aunt, who was crippled and had to crawl to get around the house. Although born generations after the end of slavery, Gaines grew up impoverished, living in old slave quarters on a plantation.

VERY FINE GUARANTEED. As New (Sealed). The condition is of the highest quality without any discernible flaws.
Publisher:
Easton Press
Edition:
Signed Limited Edition w/COA
Binding:
Full Genuine Leather
Illustrator:
N/A
Dimensions:
9.25" x 6.25" x 1"
Signature Authenticity:
Lifetime Guarantee of Signature Authenticity. Personally signed by the author directly into the book. The autograph is not a facsimile, stamp, or auto-pen.
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