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A lesson before dying / Ernest J. Gaines.

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  • ISBN: 0679414770 :
  • Physical Description: 256 p. ; 23 cm.
  • Publisher: New York : A. A. Knopf : 1993.
Subject: African American men > Fiction.
Death row inmates > Fiction.
Race relations > Fiction.
Louisiana > Fiction.
Friendship > Fiction.
Genre: Historical fiction.

Available copies

  • 2 of 2 copies available at Town of Hanover Libraries.

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  • 0 current holds with 2 total copies.

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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Etna Library FIC GAI 31257000015056 Adult collection Available -
Howe Library FIC GAI 31254002893309 Main floor Available -

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A Lesson Before Dying
A Lesson Before Dying
by Gaines, Ernest J.
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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. 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.

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