Bøger af Ernest J. Gaines

Set in a small Cajun community in the late 1940s, "A Lesson Before Dying" is an "enormously moving" ("Los Angeles Times") novel of one man condemned to die for a crime he did not commit and a young man who visits him in his cell. In the end, the two men forge a bond as they both come to understand the simple heroism of resisting--and defying--the expected. Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction.

A powerful depiction of racial tensions arising over the death of a Cajun farmer at the hands of a black man--set on a Louisiana sugarcane plantation in the 1970s. The Village Voice called A Gathering of Old Men "the best-written novel on Southern race relations in over a decade."

Jefferson, en ung sort mann, er tiltalt for drap og får dødsstraff. Han er uskyldig, men blir satt inn for å vente på den elektriske stolen. Hans gudmor gir Grant Higgins i oppdrag å overbevise Jefferson om at han er en mann og ikke et svin; et ord som ble brukt under rettssaken. Hun ønsker at Jefferson skal dø med verdighet. Grant er lærer, og det er han som forteller historien om hva som skjer med menneskene i denne lille byen og ikke minst hvordan Jefferson selv tar det. Byen står stille den fredagen mellom klokken 12 og 15 når henrettelsen finner sted.

Brings together twenty-one of the finest modern writers who claim Louisiana as home, having lived all or some part of their lives in the Pelican State. Each author shares the knack of telling a good story, a Louisiana tradition that dates back two hundred years.

A novel of prejudice, community and what it means to be a man in the American South. It explores the deep prejudice of the American South in the tradition of Harper Lee's "To Kill A Mockingbird" and Toni Morrison's "Beloved". It is the story of a young black man sentenced to death for a murder he did not commit.