| Description |
1 audio file (1 hr., 24 min.) : digital. |
| Series |
Audio Theatre series |
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Audio theatre series.
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| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Note |
Downloadable audio file. |
| Access |
Access restricted to subscribing institutions. |
| Performer |
Rick Foucheux, Keith Glover, Jamahl Marsh, Linda Powell, Jefferson A. Russell, Jerry Whiddon, Beatrice Winde. |
| Note |
Based on the novel by Ernest J. Gaines. |
| Form |
Downloadable applications available for access via iOS 4.0+ devices (iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch) and Android 2.1+ devices. |
| Summary |
Based on Ernest J. Gaines' National Book Critics Circle Award-winning novel, A lesson before dying is set in a small Louisiana Cajun community in the late 1940's. Jefferson, a young illiterate black man, is falsely convicted of murder and is sentenced to death. Grant Wiggins, the plantation schoolteacher, agrees to talk with the condemned man. The disheartened Wiggins had once harbored dreams of escaping from his impoverished youth, yet he returned to his home town after university, to teach children whose lives seemed as unpromising as Jefferson's. The two men forge a bond as they come to understand what it means to resist and defy one's own fate. |
| Note |
GMD: electronic resource. |
| Subject |
African American men -- Louisiana -- Drama.
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Death row inmates -- Drama.
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Race relations -- Drama.
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Louisiana -- Drama.
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Friendship -- Drama.
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| Added Author |
Gaines, Ernest J., 1933-2019.
Lesson before dying.
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Foucheux, Rick.
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Glover, Keith.
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Winde, Beatrice.
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Whiddon, Jerry.
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Marsh, Jamahl.
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Powell, Linda.
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Russell, Jefferson A.
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Olcott, Nick.
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L.A. Theatre Works.
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OneClick Digital (Firm)
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| Other Form: |
Original 9781580814706 (OCoLC)ocn421037435 |
| ISBN |
9781580814706 |
| Music No. |
Z10006710 Recorded Books |
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