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Rent A Lesson Before Dying (Oprah's Book Club)
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Format: Paperback, Unabridged-CD
Publisher: Random House Inc
Published: Sep 1997
Genre: Fiction - General
Retail Price: $16.00
Pages: 272
Synopsis
Grant Wiggins, a college-educated man who returns to his hometown to teach, forms an unlikely bond with Jefferson, a young Black man convicted of murder and sentenced to death, when he is asked to impart his learning and pride to the condemned man
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