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A lesson before dying

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.

Item details

  • 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.
  • Badges:
    • Most Copies: 4 / 5.0

Contents / Notes

Awards Note:
National Book Critics Circle Award Fiction, 1993.
Black Caucus of the American Library Association Literary Award Fiction, 1994.
Subject: African American men Fiction
Death row inmates Fiction
Race relations Fiction
Louisiana Fiction
Friendship Fiction
Friendship Fiction
Louisiana Fictional Works
Attitude to Health ethnology Fictional Works
Literature, Modern
Hommes noirs américains Romans, nouvelles, etc
Condamnés à mort Romans, nouvelles, etc
Relations raciales Romans, nouvelles, etc
Louisiane Romans, nouvelles, etc
Amitié Romans, nouvelles, etc
African American men Fiction
African American men
Afro-American men Louisiana fiction
Death row inmates Fiction
Death row inmates Louisiana fiction
Death row inmates
Fiction
Friendship Fiction
Friendship Louisiana fiction
Friendship
Race relations Fiction
Race relations
Louisiana
African American men
Death row inmates
Friendship
Race relations
Louisiana
Oprah Book Club selection
Genre: Fictional Work
Historical fiction.
Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Fiction.
Romans.

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