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The Resource The piano lesson, by August Wilson; foreword by Toni Morrison, (electronic resource)
The piano lesson, by August Wilson; foreword by Toni Morrison, (electronic resource)
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The item The piano lesson, by August Wilson; foreword by Toni Morrison, (electronic resource) represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in San Francisco Public Library.This item is available to borrow from all library branches.
Resource Information
The item The piano lesson, by August Wilson; foreword by Toni Morrison, (electronic resource) represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in San Francisco Public Library.
This item is available to borrow from all library branches.
- Summary
- "Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and winner of the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Play, this modern American classic is about family, and the legacy of slavery in America. 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 perhaps his most haunting and dramatic work. 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."--
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xviii, 108 pages).
- Isbn
- 9780593087596
- Label
- The piano lesson
- Title
- The piano lesson
- Statement of responsibility
- by August Wilson; foreword by Toni Morrison
- Subject
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- Brothers and sisters -- Drama
- DRAMA -- American | General
- Drama
- Drama
- Electronic books
- Heirlooms -- Drama
- Historical drama
- Historical drama
- Historical drama
- History
- Nineteen thirties -- Drama
- Sharecroppers -- Drama
- African American families -- Drama
- African Americans -- History -- 20th century -- Drama
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and winner of the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Play, this modern American classic is about family, and the legacy of slavery in America. 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 perhaps his most haunting and dramatic work. 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."--
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
- Cataloging source
- INARC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Wilson, August
- Dewey number
- 812/.54
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PS3573.I45677
- LC item number
- P54 1990
- Literary form
- dramas
- Nature of contents
- dictionaries
- Series statement
- Plume drama
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- African Americans
- African American families
- Brothers and sisters
- Heirlooms
- Sharecroppers
- Nineteen thirties
- DRAMA
- Label
- The piano lesson, by August Wilson; foreword by Toni Morrison, (electronic resource)
- Link
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
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- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xviii, 108 pages).
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780593087596
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- c
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- f9948b6f-62fb-44b7-b8e8-043f5f3c8601
- Publisher number
- EB00762953
- Sound
- unknown sound
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1036819378
- Label
- The piano lesson, by August Wilson; foreword by Toni Morrison, (electronic resource)
- Link
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xviii, 108 pages).
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780593087596
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- f9948b6f-62fb-44b7-b8e8-043f5f3c8601
- Publisher number
- EB00762953
- Sound
- unknown sound
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1036819378
Subject
- Brothers and sisters -- Drama
- DRAMA -- American | General
- Drama
- Drama
- Electronic books
- Heirlooms -- Drama
- Historical drama
- Historical drama
- Historical drama
- History
- Nineteen thirties -- Drama
- Sharecroppers -- Drama
- African American families -- Drama
- African Americans -- History -- 20th century -- Drama
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