A Lesson Before Dying, Romulus Linney
A Lesson Before Dying, Romulus Linney
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A Lesson Before Dying

Author: Romulus Linney

Narrator: Keith Glover, Full Cast

Unabridged: 1 hr 23 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/10/2002


Synopsis

Based on Ernest J. Gaines’ National Book Critics Circle Award-winning novel, A Lesson Before Dying is set in a small Louisiana Cajun community in the late 1940’s. Jefferson, a young illiterate black man, is falsely convicted of murder and is sentenced to death. Grant Wiggins, the plantation schoolteacher, agrees to talk with the condemned man. The disheartened Wiggins had once harbored dreams of escaping from his impoverished youth, yet he returned to his home town after university, to teach children whose lives seemed as unpromising as Jefferson’s. The two men forge a bond as they come to understand what it means to resist and defy one’s own fate.

An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring:
Rick Foucheux as Paul Bonin
Keith Glover as Grant Wiggins
Jamahl Marsh as Jefferson
Linda Powell as Vivian Baptiste
Jefferson A. Russell as Reverend Moses Ambrose
Jerry Whiddon as Sam Guidry
Beatrice Winde as Emma Glenn

Directed by Nick Olcott. Recorded at Voice of America in Washington DC.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Tara

Extremely sad and still feels relevant. The last 3 minutes really got me. Shed tears.......more

Goodreads review by Gladwyn

A short story on a condemned black man who learns to walk tall to the electric chair through the gauntlet of southern racism. Nice portrait of his family and teacher- W. E. B. DuBois would be proud.......more