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by August Wilson
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Availability:In StockContributor:August WilsonAudience:Young AdultPublish date:1997-08-01Pages:128
Language:EnglishPublisher:Plume BooksISBN-13:9780452276925ISBN-10:452276926UPC:9780452276925Book Category:Drama, Social Science, Performing ArtsBook Subcategory:American, Cultural & Ethnic Studies, DanceBook Topic:American, JazzSize:7.90 x 5.30 x 0.40 inchesWeight:0.2513Product ID:SCNZMPNYDC
Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Fences and The Piano Lesson
Winner of the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Play

It is the spring of 1948. In the still cool evenings of Pittsburgh's Hill district, familiar sounds fill the air. A rooster crows. Screen doors slam. The laughter of friends gathered for a backyard card game rises just above the wail of a mother who has lost her son. And there's the sound of the blues, played and sung by young men and women with little more than a guitar in their hands and a dream in their hearts.

August Wilson's Seven Guitars is the sixth chapter in his continuing theatrical saga that explores the hope, heartbreak, and heritage of the African-American experience in the twentieth century. The story follows a small group of friends who gather following the untimely death of Floyd "Schoolboy" Barton, a local blues guitarist on the edge of stardom. Together, they reminisce about his short life and discover the unspoken passions and undying spirit that live within each of them.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Plume BooksISBN-13:9780452276925ISBN-10:452276926UPC:9780452276925Book Category:Drama, Social Science, Performing ArtsBook Subcategory:American, Cultural & Ethnic Studies, DanceBook Topic:American, JazzSize:7.90 x 5.30 x 0.40 inchesWeight:0.2513Product ID:SCNZMPNYDC
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.
Publisher: Plume Books

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