An edition of The Piano Lesson (1990)

The Piano Lesson

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An edition of The Piano Lesson (1990)

The Piano Lesson

  • 4.50 ·
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  • 35 Want to read
  • 2 Currently reading
  • 1 Have read

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.

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Penguin Books Ltd
Pages
240

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Cover of: The piano lesson
The piano lesson
2008, Theatre Communications Group
in English - 1st ed.
Cover of: Piano Lesson
Piano Lesson
September 2007, Theatre Communications Group
Hardcover in English
Cover of: The piano lesson
The piano lesson
2004, Alexander Street Press
electronic resource / in English - 1st electronic ed.
Cover of: The Piano Lesson
The Piano Lesson
October 1999, Tandem Library
in English
Cover of: The Piano Lesson
The Piano Lesson
July 31, 1997, Penguin Books Ltd
Paperback
Cover of: The piano lesson
The piano lesson
1990, Dutton
Cover of: The piano lesson
The piano lesson
1990, Dutton
in English
Cover of: The piano lesson
The piano lesson
1990, Plume
in English
Cover of: The piano lesson
The piano lesson
1990, Dutton
in English

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First Sentence

"The lights come up on the Charles household."

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Penguin Plays & Screenplays

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Paperback
Number of pages
240

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OL9458597M
ISBN 10
0140265260
ISBN 13
9780140265262
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77026
Goodreads
6692436

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The lights come up on the Charles household.
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The lights come up on the Charles household.
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