A lesson before dying / Ernest J. Gaines.
Material type: TextSeries: Vintage contemporariesPublisher: New York : Vintage Contemporaries/ Vintage Books, 1994Copyright date: ©1993Edition: First Vintage Contemporaries editionDescription: 256 pages ; 21 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0679741666
- 9780679741664
- 0375702709
- 9780375702709
- 0785769811
- 9780785769811
- 0679414770
- 9780679414773
- 9780780752887
- 0780752880
- National Book Critics Circle Award Fiction, 1993.
- Black Caucus of the American Library Association Literary Award Fiction, 1994.
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Adult Book | Main Library | Fiction | GAINES, ERNEST | Available | 33111011232549 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
From the author of A Gathering of Old Men and The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman comes a deep and compassionate novel. A young man who returns to 1940s Cajun country to teach visits a black youth on death row 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.
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.