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082	0		_aFIC GAI
100	1		_aGaines, Ernest J. _d, 1933-
245	1	0	_aA lesson before dying _c/ Ernest J. Gaines
260			_aNew York _b: Vintage Books/ Random House _c, 1994 _c, c1993.
300			_a256 p. _c; 23 cm.
520			_aSet in a small Cajun community in the late 1940s, "A Lesson Before Dying" is an "enormously moving" ("Los Angeles Times") novel 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. Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction.
650			_aAfrican American men _v--Fiction
650			_aFriendship _v--Fiction
650		4	_aDeath row inmates _x--Fiction
650		4	_aRace relations _x--Fiction
651		4	_aLouisiana _x--Fiction
655		7	_aHistorical fiction
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