A lesson before dying / Ernest J. Gaines.
1994
PS3557.A355 L47 1994 (Mapit)
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Title
A lesson before dying / Ernest J. Gaines.
Edition
1st Vintage contemporaries ed.
ISBN
0375702709 (pbk.)
0679741666
0679741666
Publication Details
New York : Vintage Books, 1994.
Language
English
Description
256 p. ; 21 cm.
Item Number
9780679741664
Call Number
PS3557.A355 L47 1994
Alternate Call Number
18.06
Dewey Decimal Classification
813/.54
Summary
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.
Series
Vintage contemporaries
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