A lesson before dying

Linney, Romulus 1930-2011 (Author). Foucheux, Rick. (Added Author). Glover, Keith. (Added Author). Marsh, Jamahl. (Added Author). Powell, Linda. (Added Author). Russell, Jefferson A. (Added Author). Whiddon, Jerry. (Added Author). Winde, Beatrice. (Added Author).

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.

Record details

Physical Description: electronic resource
remote
Publisher: [Venice, Calif.] : L.A. Theatre Works, 2007.

Content descriptions

General Note:	Downloadable audio file. Title from: Title details screen. Unabridged. Duration: 1:24:03.
Participant or Performer Note:	Performed by Rick Foucheux, Keith Glover, Jamahl Marsh, Linda Powell, Jefferson A. Russell, Jerry Whiddon, Beatrice Winde.
System Details Note:	Requires OverDrive Media Console Requires OverDrive Media Console (WMA file size: 20141 KB; MP3 file size: 39538 KB). Mode of access: World Wide Web.