A lesson before dying /

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 senten...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Gaines, Ernest J., 1933-2019 (Author)
Corporate Authors:	Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania), Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Vintage Books, 1994 New York : Vintage Contemporaries/ Vintage Books, 1994
Edition:	First Vintage Contemporaries edition
Series:	Vintage contemporaries
Subjects:	Oprah Book Club selection African American men > Fiction Death row inmates > Fiction Friendship > Fiction Race relations > Fiction Attitude to Health > ethnology > Fictional Works Attitude to Health > ethnology Literature, Modern Louisiana > Fictional Works CHR 1994 PRO Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy) PRO Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy) Amitié > Romans, nouvelles, etc Condamnés à mort > Romans, nouvelles, etc Hommes noirs américains > Romans, nouvelles, etc Relations raciales > Romans, nouvelles, etc African American men Afro-American men > Louisiana > fiction Death row inmates Death row inmates > Louisiana > fiction Fiction Friendship Friendship > Louisiana > fiction Race relations Louisiana > Fiction Louisiana Louisiane > Romans, nouvelles, etc Fictional Work Historical fiction Romans