A Lesson Before Dying

By: Romulus Linney

Narrated by: Rick Foucheux, Keith Glover, Jamahl Marsh, full cast

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 1940s. 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 hometown 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 fate.

©2001 L.A. Theatre Works (P)2001 L.A. Theatre Works

Enjoyed the lessons in this book so much!

This book was so interesting. I purchased the hard copy but switched to the audiobook version and the story just came alive for me. The acting was superb. I could visualize everything that they shared. The multiple lessons in the book were a surprise to me. I focused I. The main lesson of Jefferson but saw all the lessons that people learned through the experience and words shared. Definitely recommend this to others to experience.

Great Play

One of the best LA Theatre Works has done. It made me cry. I definitely recommend this one!

Well done

I loved this, because i personally love it when i can imagine different characters. This was very visual. I would listen to another book like this in a heartbeat

Good storytelling

The story is well written yet all too true about the life on many black folks in America. A sad, but we’ll told tale.

Altogether was amazing!!

I loved every single moment of listening to this audiobook! I disappointed when it did not continue onto the rest of the book because the voice actors were doing such an amazing job of expressing the characters emotions. I am glad I bought the two chapters anyway because it gave me a good introduction of how awesome of a read this book really is.

Make sure before anyone buys this audiobook to understand it is not the full book only two chapters are on audio.