A lesson before dying /
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,...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Vintage Books,
1994
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| Edition: | 1st Vintage contemporaries ed. |
| Series: | Vintage contemporaries
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| Online Access: | Sample text Publisher description |
| 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. |
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| Item Description: | Cushing Library Area Studies/Africana copy signed by the author. |
| Physical Description: | 256 pages ; 21 cm. |
| Awards: | National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction, 1993 |
| ISBN: | 0679741666 9780679741664 0375702709 (pbk.) 9780375702709 (pbk.) 0785769811 9780785769811 |