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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 resistingContinue
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- English Books
- Paperback 272 Pages
- Edition: 1st Vintage Contemporaries Ed
- ISBN-10: 0375702709
- ISBN-13: 9780375702709
- Publisher: Vintage
- Pub date: Sep 01, 1997
- Dimensions: 1290 mm x 839 mm x 65 mm Just how big is that?
- Also available as: Hardcover, Audio CD, Audio Cassette, School & Library Binding, Unbound and Others
- In other languages: other languages
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A Lesson Before Dying
A LESSON BEFORE DYING is about a young black man, Jefferson, who finds himself in the wrong place at the wrong time. He gets unwittingly involved in a shootout in a local liquor store where the white bar tender is killed. It is a small town in the so ... (read full critics)