Fences - Couverture rigide

Wilson, August

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1559363029 ISBN 13 : 9781559363020

Editeur : Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S., 2008

Synopsis

A powerful, stunning dramatic work that won Wilson critical acclaim and the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

Troy Maxson is a strong man, a hard man. He has had to be to survive. Maxson has gone through life in an America where to be proud and Black was to face pressures that could crush a man, body and soul. But now, the 1950s are yielding to the new spirit of liberation in the 1960s This spirit is changing the world Maxson has learned to deal with the only way he can, adnd it's making him a stranger, angry and afraid, in a world he never knew and to a wife and son he understands less and less...

The play is part of August Wilson's Century Cycle, his epic dramatization of the African American experience in the twentieth century.

This edition includes a foreword by Samuel G. Freedman.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

August Wilson (1945-2005) is the most influential and successful African American playwright. A two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author, his plays have been produced all over the world.

Samuel G. Freedman is an author, columnist, and professor at Columbia University. His books include: Small Victories: The Real World of a Teacher, Her Students and Their High School (finalist for the 1990 National Book Award); The Inheritance: How Three Families and America Moved from Roosevelt to Reagan and Beyond (finalist for the 1997 Pulitzer Prize); Upon This Rock: The Miracles of a Black Church; Letters To A Young Journalist; and Dying Words: The AIDS Reporting of Jeff Schmalz and How it Transformed The New York Times, co-written with Kerry Donahue.

Freedman has been published in such publications as The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Washington Post, The Guardian, Rolling Stone, Los Angeles Times, and The Root.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S.
• Date d'édition: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1559363029
• ISBN 13: 9781559363020
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 112
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible