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A lesson before dying

Gaines, Ernest J. 1933- (Author).

Summary: A novel of prejudice, community and what it means to be a man in the American South. It explores the deep prejudice of the American South in the tradition of Harper Lee's "To Kill A Mockingbird" and Toni Morrison's "Beloved". It is the story of a young black man sentenced to death for a murder he did not commit.

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  • ISBN: 9780375702709 (pbk.)
  • ISBN: 9780679414773 ;
  • ISBN: 0375702709 (pbk.)
  • ISBN: 0679414770 ;
  • Physical Description: print
    256 p. ; 23 cm.
  • Publisher: New York : A. A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House, Inc., 1993.

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Genre: Legal stories.
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