TY  - BOOK
N2  - 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.
AB  - 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.
T1  - A lesson before dying /
DA  - 1994.
CY  - New York :
AU  - Gaines, Ernest J.,
ET  - 1st Vintage contemporaries ed.
CN  - PS3557.A355
CN  - PS3557.A355
PB  - Vintage Books,
PP  - New York :
PY  - 1994.
ID  - 192642
KW  - African American men
KW  - Death row inmates
KW  - Race relations
KW  - Friendship
SN  - 0375702709 (pbk.)
SN  - 0679741666
TI  - A lesson before dying /
LK  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/random041/93042201.html
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/random041/93042201.html
ER  -