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Author Gaines, Ernest J., 1933-2019

Title A lesson before dying / Ernest J. Gaines.

Publication Info. New York : Vintage Books, 1994.
1993.

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 Bristol, Main Library - Adult Fiction  F GAINES    Check Shelf
 Bristol, Main Library - Adult Fiction  F GAINES c.4  Check Shelf
 Bristol, Manross Branch - Adult Fiction  F GAINES    Check Shelf
 Burlington Public Library - Adult Department  FIC GAI c.2  Check Shelf
 Colchester, Cragin Memorial Library - Basement Materials  FICTION GAINES, ERNEST J.    Check Shelf
 East Hartford, Raymond Library - Adult Department  F GAINES ERNEST    Check Shelf
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Edition First Vintage contemporaries edition.
Description 256 pages ; 21 cm.
Series Vintage contemporaries
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.
Study Program Accelerated Reader AR UG 4.4 11.0 10287.
Subject African American men -- Fiction.
Death row inmates -- Fiction.
Race relations -- Fiction.
Friendship -- Fiction.
African American men -- Louisiana -- Fiction.
Death row inmates -- Louisiana -- Fiction.
Friendship -- Louisiana -- Fiction.
Louisiana -- Fiction.
Genre/Form Historical fiction.
ISBN 0375702709 paperback
9780375702709 paperback
0785769811
9780785769811
0679741666
9780679741664
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