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A lesson before dying Cover Image Book Book

A lesson before dying

Gaines, Ernest J. 1933-2019 (author.).

Summary: From the author of, A Gathering of Old Men and The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman comes a deep and compassionate novel. When Grant Wiggins, a college-educated man returns to 1940s Cajun country, 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.

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  • ISBN: 0679741666
  • ISBN: 9780679741664
  • ISBN: 0375702709
  • ISBN: 9780375702709
  • ISBN: 0785769811
  • ISBN: 9780785769811
  • ISBN: 0679414770
  • ISBN: 9780679414773
  • ISBN: 9780780752887
  • ISBN: 0780752880
  • Physical Description: print
    regular print
    256 pages ; 21 cm.
  • Edition: First Vintage Contemporaries edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Vintage Contemporaries/ Vintage Books, 1994.

Contents / Notes

Awards Note:
National Book Critics Circle Award Fiction, 1993.
Black Caucus of the American Library Association Literary Award Fiction, 1994.

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