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008			931105r19941993nyu 000 1 eng
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050	0	0	_aPS 3557 .A355 L47 1994
049			_aVF$A
100	1		_aGaines, Ernest J., _d1933-2019.
245	1	2	_aA lesson before dying / _cErnest J. Gaines.
250			_a1st Vintage contemporaries ed.
260			_aNew York : _bVintage Books, _c1994.
300			_a256 p. ; _c21 cm.
490	0		_aVintage contemporaries
520			_aFrom 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.
650		0	_aAfrican American men _vFiction.
650		0	_aDeath row inmates _vFiction.
650		0	_aRace relations _vFiction.
651		0	_aLouisiana _vFiction.
650		0	_aFriendship _vFiction.
856	1		_uhttp://falcon.jmu.edu/%7Eramseyil/gaines.htm
856	4	2	_3Publisher description _uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/random041/93042201.html
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