A lesson before dying / Ernest J. Gaines

By:

Gaines, Ernest J [author]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: New York : Vintage Contemporaries, 1994Description: 256 pagesContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0375702709

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

Historical fiction

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Summary: "A lesson before dying is set a small Cajun community in the late 1940s. Jefferson, a young black man, is an unwitting party to a liquor store shootout in which three men are killed; the only survivor, he is convicted of murder and sentenced to death. Grant Wiggins, who left his hometown for the university, has returned to plantation school to teach. As he struggles with his decision whether to stay or escape to another state, his aunt and Jefferson's godmother persuade him visit Jefferson in his cell and impart his learning and his pride to Jefferson before his death. In the end the two men forge a bond as they both come to understand the simple heroism of resisting--and defying--the expected."--Cover

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Barcode
Book	Talipapa Branch Fiction Area	Fiction	Fic G142l 1993 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	118628d

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"A lesson before dying is set a small Cajun community in the late 1940s. Jefferson, a young black man, is an unwitting party to a liquor store shootout in which three men are killed; the only survivor, he is convicted of murder and sentenced to death. Grant Wiggins, who left his hometown for the university, has returned to plantation school to teach. As he struggles with his decision whether to stay or escape to another state, his aunt and Jefferson's godmother persuade him visit Jefferson in his cell and impart his learning and his pride to Jefferson before his death. In the end the two men forge a bond as they both come to understand the simple heroism of resisting--and defying--the expected."--Cover

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