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Joe Turner's Come and Gone: A Play in Two Acts Paperback - 1988
by August Wilson
Summary
From the Pulitzer Prize winning playwright of Fences and The Piano Lesson
The glow accompanying August Wilson’s place in contemporary American theater is fixed.” Toni Morrison
When Harold Loomis arrives at a black Pittsburgh boardinghouse after seven years' impressed labor on Joe Turner's chain gang, he is a free manin body. But the scars of his enslavement and a sense of inescapable alienation oppress his spirit still, and the seemingly hospitable rooming house seethes with tension and distrust in the presence of this tormented stranger. Loomis is looking for the wife he left behind, believing that she can help him reclaim his old identity. But through his encounters with the other residents he begins to realize that what he really seeks is his rightful place in a new worldand it will take more than the skill of the local "People Finder" to discover it.
This jazz-influenced drama is a moving narrative of African-American experience in the 20th century.
The glow accompanying August Wilson’s place in contemporary American theater is fixed.” Toni Morrison
When Harold Loomis arrives at a black Pittsburgh boardinghouse after seven years' impressed labor on Joe Turner's chain gang, he is a free manin body. But the scars of his enslavement and a sense of inescapable alienation oppress his spirit still, and the seemingly hospitable rooming house seethes with tension and distrust in the presence of this tormented stranger. Loomis is looking for the wife he left behind, believing that she can help him reclaim his old identity. But through his encounters with the other residents he begins to realize that what he really seeks is his rightful place in a new worldand it will take more than the skill of the local "People Finder" to discover it.
This jazz-influenced drama is a moving narrative of African-American experience in the 20th century.
Details
- Title Joe Turner's Come and Gone: A Play in Two Acts
- Author August Wilson
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: Repri
- Pages 94
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Plume Books, New York
- Date 1988-10-30
- ISBN 9780452260092 / 0452260094
- Weight 0.25 lbs (0.11 kg)
- Dimensions 7.8 x 5.3 x 0.4 in (19.81 x 13.46 x 1.02 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
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Themes
- Ethnic Orientation: African American
- Library of Congress subjects African Americans, Historical drama
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 88001660
- Dewey Decimal Code 812.54
Media reviews
"As rich in religious feeling as in historical detail, Joe Turner is at once a teeming canvas of black America and a spiritual allegory with a Melville whammy . . . Joe Turner is flecked with hypnotic storytelling soliloquies as grittily redolent of itinerant America as those in The Iceman Cometh."
Frank Rich, The New York Times
"Has the haunting power of a ghost story . . . bold theatricality . . . electrifying."
The Washington Post
"August Wilson's best play!"
William A. Henry III, Time magazine
"Joe Turner's Come and Gone is one of the best American plays of the decade . . . he takes us through joy and disaster, hatred and love; he pulls few punches and in the end he has contributed not only to the stature of American playwrighting but to our understanding of our society. A rich, rewarding play, that rare work what entertains while it teaches."
The Providence Journal
Frank Rich, The New York Times
"Has the haunting power of a ghost story . . . bold theatricality . . . electrifying."
The Washington Post
"August Wilson's best play!"
William A. Henry III, Time magazine
"Joe Turner's Come and Gone is one of the best American plays of the decade . . . he takes us through joy and disaster, hatred and love; he pulls few punches and in the end he has contributed not only to the stature of American playwrighting but to our understanding of our society. A rich, rewarding play, that rare work what entertains while it teaches."
The Providence Journal
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