A lesson before dying

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Author:
Gaines, Ernest J., 1933-2019
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English
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ISBN:
9780679414773
9781400077700
9780375702709
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The story of one man condemned to die for a crime he did not commit and a young man who visits him in his cell. In the end, the two men forge a bond as they both come to understand the simple heroism of resisting--and defying--the expected.
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2004
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African American men -- Fiction
Death row inmates -- Fiction
Fiction
Friendship -- Fiction
Historical fiction
Louisiana -- Fiction
Race relations -- Fiction
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A Lesson Before Dying
A lesson before dying / Ernest J. Gaines
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A lesson before dying
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African American Fiction
African American men
Death row inmates
Fiction
Friendship
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