An edition of A Lesson Before Dying (1993)

A lesson before dying

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An edition of A Lesson Before Dying (1993)

A lesson before dying

1st Vintage contemporaries ed.

by

  • ★★★★ 4.15 ·
  • 13 Ratings
  • 126 Want to read
  • 12 Currently reading
  • 14 Have read

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.From the Trade Paperback edition.

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Vintage Books
Language
English
Pages
256

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Fiction, Race relations, African American men, Friendship, Death row inmates, Large type books, OverDrive, National Book Critics Circle Award Winner, award:national_book_critics_circle_award=1993, award:national_book_critics_circle_award=fiction, Accessible book, Protected DAISY, Roman américain, In library, African Americans, Afro-American men
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A Lesson Before Dying
October 29, 1998, Serpent
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A Lesson Before Dying
September 28, 1997, Vintage
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A lesson before dying
1994, Vintage Books
in English - 1st Vintage contemporaries ed.
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A Lesson Before Dying
1994, Vintage Books
in English
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A Lesson Before Dying
1993, New York : A. A. Knopf : Distribued by Random House, Inc., A. A. Knopf, Distribued by Random House, Inc.
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A lesson before dying
1993, A. A. Knopf, Distribued by Random House, Inc.
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Vintage contemporaries
Genre
Fiction.

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Dewey Decimal Class
813/.54
Library of Congress
PS3557.A355 L47 1994, PS3557.A355L47 1994

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Pagination
256 p. ;
Number of pages
256

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OL1430780M
ISBN 10
0679741666
LCCN
93042201
OCLC/WorldCat
29389431
Library Thing
17722
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965840

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