A lesson before dying /
Gaines, Ernest J., 1933-2019,
A lesson before dying / Ernest J. Gaines. - First Vintage Contemporaries edition. - 256 pages ; 21 cm. - Vintage contemporaries .
From the author of, A Gathering of Old Men and The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman comes a deep and compassionate novel. When Grant Wiggins, a college-educated man returns to 1940s Cajun country, 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.
National Book Critics Circle Award Fiction, 1993. Black Caucus of the American Library Association Literary Award Fiction, 1994.
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African American men--Fiction.
Death row inmates--Fiction.
Race relations--Fiction.
Friendship--Fiction.
Louisiana--Fiction.
Fiction.
A lesson before dying / Ernest J. Gaines. - First Vintage Contemporaries edition. - 256 pages ; 21 cm. - Vintage contemporaries .
From the author of, A Gathering of Old Men and The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman comes a deep and compassionate novel. When Grant Wiggins, a college-educated man returns to 1940s Cajun country, 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.
National Book Critics Circle Award Fiction, 1993. Black Caucus of the American Library Association Literary Award Fiction, 1994.
0679741666 9780679741664 0375702709 9780375702709 0785769811 9780785769811 0679414770 9780679414773 9780780752887 0780752880
9780375702709 51200
93042201
African American men--Fiction.
Death row inmates--Fiction.
Race relations--Fiction.
Friendship--Fiction.
Louisiana--Fiction.
Fiction.