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Fences Paperback - 1986

by August Wilson

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Plume. 9780452264014 PAPERBACK. COMPONENTS ARE NOT INCLUDED. Heavy wear and creasing to cover/edges/corners. Layers of covers on corners are moderately split. Rips and tears to cover and pages. Binding solidly attached to cover but may show signs of loosening. Binding still holding strong. All pages present. School markings/highlighting throughout book and black-out marks on edges of pages, but none that impairs usability. . Used Acceptable.
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  • Title Fences
  • Author August Wilson
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: Repri
  • Condition Used Acceptable
  • Pages 128
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Plume, New York
  • Date 1986-06-01
  • Bookseller's Inventory # G0452264014004
  • ISBN 9780452264014 / 0452264014
  • Weight 0.3 lbs (0.14 kg)
  • Dimensions 8 x 5.25 x 0.4 in (20.32 x 13.34 x 1.02 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Themes
    • Catalog Heading: Language Arts/Literature
    • Curriculum Strand: Language Arts/Literature
    • Ethnic Orientation: African American
  • Library of Congress subjects African Americans, Conflict of generations
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 86005264
  • Dewey Decimal Code 812.54

Summary

 The 1987 Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama

From August Wilson, author of The Piano Lesson and the 1984-85 Broadway season's best play, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, is another powerful, stunning dramatic work that has won him numerous critical acclaim including the 1987 Tony Award for Best Play and the Pulitzer Prize. The protagonist of Fences (part of Wilson’s ten-part “Pittsburgh Cycle” plays), Troy Maxson, is a strong man, a hard man. He has had to be to survive.  Troy Maxson has gone through life in an America where to be proud and black is to face pressures that could crush a man, body and soul. But the1950s 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...

From the publisher

August Wilson is 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 also voted best play of 1987-88 by the New York Drama Critics' Circle. In 1990, Wilson was awarded his second Pulitzer Prize for The Piano Lesson.

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It is 1957. TROY and BONO enter the yard, engaged in conversation.

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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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