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  The Piano Lesson (Plume Drama) (Paperback) By (author) August Wilson

  

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  Short Description for The Piano LessonSet in 1936, The Piano Lesson is a powerful new play from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Fences and Ma Rainey's Black Bottom. A sister and brother fight over a piano that has been in the family for three generations, creating a remarkable drama that embodies the painful past and expectant future of black Americans.
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  • Publisher: Plume Books
  • Published: 01 December 1990
  • Format: Paperback 108 pages
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  • Categories: Plays, Playscripts
  • ISBN 13: 9780452265349 ISBN 10: 0452265347
  • Sales rank: 106,392

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Full description for The Piano Lesson

• 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.