Cambridge Wizard Student Guide A Lesson Before Dying - Couverture souple

McRoberts, Richard

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0521545145 ISBN 13 : 9780521545143

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2003

Synopsis

A Lesson before Dying is about an innocent man sentenced to death.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Ernest Gaines is considered one of America's foremost contemporary 'black' writers. A Lesson before Dying is his award-winning drama about a man sentenced to die for a crime he didn't commit. The narrator, a school teacher given the impossible task of rehabilitating the condemned man, of giving him a chance at dignity before he dies. At first the task seems impossible, but compassion, understanding and the political necessity of making a statement against the 'white man's myth' (of racial superiority) actually manages to help the man rise from being a wretched victim to a 'hero' for his people. The novel ends explosively, with the execution, but also with a sense of the courage it took to face death. The text is very much a polemic for 'black pride'.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0521545145
• ISBN 13: 9780521545143
• Reliure: Broché
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 64
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible