A lesson before dying
Set 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 t...
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New York :
A.A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House,
1997, c1993.
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