The piano lesson / (Record no. 8135)
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| fixed length control field | 01504cam a2200193 a 4500 |
| INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| ISBN | 0452265347 |
| INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| ISBN | 9780452265349 |
| DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 812/.54 |
| MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME | |
| Personal name | Wilson, August |
| TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | The piano lesson / |
| PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | 108 pages ; |
| SERIES STATEMENT | |
| Series statement | Plume drama |
| GENERAL NOTE | |
| General note | Cast: 5 men, 3 women |
| SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | August Wilson has already given the American theater such spell-binding plays about the black experience in 20th-century America as Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, Joe Turner's Come and Gone, and the Pulitzer Prize-winning, Fences. In his second Pulitzer Prize-winner, The Piano Lesson, Wilson has fashioned his most haunting and dramatic work yet. At the heart of the play stands the ornately carved upright piano which, as the Charles family's prized, hard-won possession, has been gathering dust in the parlor of Berniece Charles's Pittsburgh home. When Boy Willie, Berniece's exuberant brother, bursts into her life with his dream of buying the same Mississippi land that his family had worked as slaves, he plans to sell their antique piano for the hard cash he needs to stake his future. But Berniece refuses to sell, clinging to the piano as a reminder of the history that is their family legacy. This dilemma is the real "piano lesson," reminding us that blacks are often deprived both of the symbols of their past and of opportunity in the present |
| SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | African Americans |
| SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Collective memory |
| ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Koha item type | Books |
| Permanent Location | Current Location | Date acquired | Full call number | Accession Number | Koha item type |
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| Jos Study Centre | Jos Study Centre | 08/11/2023 | PS353.1456 .W54 1990 | 0182455 | Books |