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Title: Just BookIt2001 book club review of A Lesson
Review: A Lesson Before Dying is a must for anyone's home Library. It is definately what one would call a "modern classic". I read this book with an online book club whose name is reflected in the title of this review JustBookIt2001. We had a very poignant discussion on this book. So many themes and issues are evident in this novel. You could debate forever on the subject of capital punishment alone. Mr. Gaines does an excellent job of setting the era and letting us visualize the location that these events take place in. This novel takes you back to a time that unfortunately was not that far into our nation's past, where there is racial inquality and judicial injustice. The question is who really learn's the lesson in this story? And how far have we really come in this day and age?
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