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012403 |
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Requires OverDrive Media Console (file size: 20141 KB). |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Downloadable audio file. |
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Title from: Title details screen. |
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Unabridged. |
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Duration: 1:24:03. |
| Performer |
Performed by Rick Foucheux, Keith Glover, Jamahl Marsh, Linda Powell, Jefferson A. Russell, Jerry Whiddon, Beatrice Winde. |
| Summary |
Based on Ernest J. Gaines' National Book Critics Circle Award-winning novel, A lesson before dying is set in a small Louisiana Cajun community in the late 1940's. Jefferson, a young illiterate black man, is falsely convicted of murder and is sentenced to death. Grant Wiggins, the plantation schoolteacher, agrees to talk with the condemned man. The disheartened Wiggins had once harbored dreams of escaping from his impoverished youth, yet he returned to his home town after university, to teach children whose lives seemed as unpromising as Jefferson's. The two men forge a bond as they come to understand what it means to resist and defy one's own fate. |
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African American men -- Drama. -- Sound recordings.
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Death row inmates -- Drama. -- Sound recordings.
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Race relations -- Drama. -- Sound recordings.
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Louisiana -- Drama.
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Friendship -- Drama. -- Sound recordings.
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| Genre |
Radio plays.
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| Added Author |
Foucheux, Rick.
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Glover, Keith.
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Marsh, Jamahl.
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Powell, Linda.
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Russell, Jefferson A.
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Whiddon, Jerry.
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Winde, Beatrice.
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| Other Form: |
Original 9781580812283 (OCoLC)49421134 |
| ISBN |
(sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book) |
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