@article{192642,
      author = {Gaines, Ernest J.,},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/192642},
      title = {A lesson before dying /},
      publisher = {Vintage Books,},
      abstract = {From the author of, A Gathering of Old Men and The  Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman comes a deep and  compassionate novel. Grant Wiggins, a college-educated man  returns to 1940s Cajun, he visits and forms an unlikely  bond with Jefferson, a young Black man convicted of murder  and sentenced to death, for a crime he didn't commit.  Together they come to understand the heroism of resisting.  Best Books for Young Teen Readers. In the 1940s in rural  Louisiana, an uneducated African American man is sentenced  to die for a crime he was incapable of committing.},
      recid = {192642},
      pages = {256 p. ;},
      address = {New York :},
      year = {1994},
}