Fences

Fences

by August Wilson
Fences

Fences

by August Wilson

Paperback(Reissue)

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An infinitely approachable narrative grappling with the ongoing issue of race in America. It’s the story of one man, living in the heart of a changing America as the Civil Rights movement sets in. This is the play that launched August Wilson, and you’ll see why when you read it.

The author of the 1984-85 Broadway season's best play, MA RAINEY'S BLACK BOTTOM, returns with another powerful, stunning dramatic work that has won him new critical acclaim and the Pulitzer Prize. The protagonist of FENCES, Troy Maxson, is a strong man, a hard man. He has had to be - to survive. For Troy 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... a spirit that is changing the world Troy Maxson has learned to deal with the only way he can...a spirit that is making him a stranger, angry and afraid, in a world he never knew and to a wife and son he understands less and less...

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780452264014
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 06/01/1986
Edition description: Reissue
Pages: 128
Sales rank: 14,488
Product dimensions: 5.30(w) x 8.03(h) x 0.41(d)

About the Author

August Wilson was a major American playwright whose work has been consistently acclaimed as among the finest of the American theater. His first play, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, won the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for best new play of 1984-85. His second play, Fences, won numerous awards for best play of the year, 1987, including the Tony Award, the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award, the Drama Desk Award, and the Pulitzer Prize. Joe Turner's Come and Gone, his third play, was voted best play of 1987-1988 by the New York Drama Critics' Circle. In 1990, Wilson was awarded his second Pulitzer Prize for The Piano Lesson. He died in 2005.
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