A LESSON BEFORE DYING
Book ID/图书代码： 06831008B29259
English Summary/英文概要： 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.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 背景為40年代的路易西安納州，21歲的年輕黑人Jefferson在不知情的情況下，被捲入一樁雜貨店搶案，不料，最後行搶的友人和老闆皆當場喪命，無人能證明他的清白，因而被陪審團判處死刑。
一位早年到外地求學及能言善道的黑人教師Grant Wiggins回到家鄉，想改善年輕一代同胞的生活，當他得知Jefferson的事件時，加上Jefferson親人的請託下，決定探訪這位年輕人，為他上死前的最後一課：如何帶著尊嚴與自傲而死。在相處過程中，兩人建立了堅定的友情，從對方身上互相學得寶貴的一課，並彰顯出人性的光輝。(Vincent)
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WINNER - YALSA Best Books for Young Adults
美國青少年圖書館協會年度青少年好書
WINNER - National Book Critics Circle Awards
美國國家書評小說獎 Reviews:
"This majestic, moving novel is an instant classic, a book that will be read, discussed and taught beyond the rest of our lives."---Chicago Tribune
"A Lesson Before Dying reconfirms Ernest J. Gaines’s position as an important American writer."---Boston Globe
"Enormously moving... Gaines unerringly evokes the place and time about which he writes."---Los Angeles Times
About the Author/作者介绍： Ernest Gaines is a writer-in-residence at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. His 1993 novel, A Lesson Before Dying, won the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction and was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. In 2004, he was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Gaines’ A Lesson Before Dying was an Oprah Book Club pick in 1997.
Ernest J. Gaines，生於美國中部路易西安納州。出版過的作品包含：A Gathering of Old Men, In My Father’s House, A Long Day in November, The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, Bloodline, Of Love and Dust及Catherine Carmier等。其中又以1993年的作品A Lesson Before Dying最受讀者推崇。該書不僅在銷售上獲得肯定，更榮獲多項獎項，並曾入圍普立茲Pulitzer Prize及獲得歐普拉讀書俱樂部的推薦選書。2004年時，獲得諾貝爾文學獎的提名。目前受美國西南路易斯安那大學University of Southwestern Louisiana的邀請擔任駐校作家。
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