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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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Main Author:	Gaines, Ernest J., 1933-2019
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Vintage Books, 1994
Edition:	1st Vintage contemporaries ed.
Series:	Vintage contemporaries
Subjects:	African American men > Fiction. Death row inmates > Fiction. Race relations > Fiction. Louisiana > Fiction. Friendship > Fiction.
Online Access:	Sample text Publisher description

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