A lesson before dying
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A lesson before dying
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- Label
- A lesson before dying
- Statement of responsibility
- Ernest J. Gaines
- Subject
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- trueRacism in the criminal justice system
- Race relations -- Fiction
- Race relations -- Fiction
- trueRacism in capital punishment
- trueRural poor people
- trueSouthern fiction
- trueSelf-esteem in men
- trueSelf-discovery in men
- true1940s -- 1940 -- 1949
- trueAfrican American defendants
- trueAfrican American fiction
- African American men
- trueAfrican American men
- African American men
- African American men -- Fiction
- African American men -- Fiction
- trueAfrican-American death row prisoners
- trueAfrican-American teachers
- Afro-American men -- Louisiana | fiction
- trueBooks to movies
- Death row inmates
- Death row inmates
- Death row inmates -- Fiction
- Death row inmates -- Fiction
- Death row inmates -- Louisiana | fiction
- Fiction
- Fiction
- Friendship
- Friendship
- Friendship -- Fiction
- Friendship -- Fiction
- Friendship -- Louisiana | fiction
- trueHistorical fiction
- Historical fiction
- Historical fiction
- trueInjustice
- trueLiterary fiction
- Louisiana
- trueLouisiana
- Louisiana
- Louisiana -- Fiction
- trueMasculinity
- trueMurder witnesses
- Oprah Book Club selection
- Oprah Book Club selection
- truePoor African Americans
- Race relations
- trueRace relations
- Race relations
- Language
- eng
- 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
- Award
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- ALA Notable Book, 1994.
- BCALA Literary Award for Fiction, 1994.
- National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction, 1993.
- YALSA Outstanding Book for the College Bound, 2009.
- Awards note
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- National Book Critics Circle Award Fiction, 1993.
- Black Caucus of the American Library Association Literary Award Fiction, 1994.
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- Dewey number
- 813/.54
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PS3557.A355
- LC item number
- L47 1994
- Literary form
- fiction
- Series statement
- Vintage contemporaries
- Target audience
- adult
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