A lesson before dying, Ernest J. Gaines
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A lesson before dying, Ernest J. Gaines
Language
eng
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no index present
Literary Form
fiction
Main title
A lesson before dying
Oclc number
29389431
Responsibility statement
Ernest J. Gaines
Series statement
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
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- Race relations
- Death row inmates -- Louisiana -- fiction
- Death row inmates -- Fiction
- Fiction
- Friendship
- Death row inmates -- Louisiana -- fiction
- Afro-American men -- Louisiana -- fiction
- Afro-American men -- Louisiana -- fiction
- Death row inmates
- African American men -- Fiction
- Louisiana
- Oprah Book Club selection
- Fiction
- Friendship -- Fiction
- African American men
- Louisiana -- Fiction
- Race relations -- Fiction
- Friendship -- Louisiana -- fiction
- Friendship -- Louisiana -- fiction
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- Creator1
- Genre1
- Subject19
- Race relations
- Death row inmates -- Louisiana -- fiction
- Death row inmates -- Fiction
- Fiction
- Friendship
- Death row inmates -- Louisiana -- fiction
- Afro-American men -- Louisiana -- fiction
- Afro-American men -- Louisiana -- fiction
- Death row inmates
- African American men -- Fiction
- Louisiana
- Oprah Book Club selection
- Fiction
- Friendship -- Fiction
- African American men
- Louisiana -- Fiction
- Race relations -- Fiction
- Friendship -- Louisiana -- fiction
- Friendship -- Louisiana -- fiction
- Content1
- Is Part Of1
- Other version1
- Mapped to1