Lesson before Dying

English

Series: Vintage Contemporaries Ser.

ISBN: 0375702709

EAN: 9780375702709

Category: Fiction / Historical/Fiction / African American / General/

Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Release Date: 09/30/1997

Synopsis: 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 didnt commit. Together they come to understand the heroism of resisting.

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Lesson before Dying

Illustrated: No

Format: Paperback

Height: 0.58 inches

Width: 5.19 inches

Length: 8.01 inches

Weight: 7.09 oz

Pages: 272