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voisjoe1
Feb 14, 2014voisjoe1 rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
Several years ago, I saw the TV Teleplay “The Piano Lesson,” based on the play of that name by the great African-American playwright August Wilson. That play included a great depiction of African-American life in the 1990’s. This led me to read “Fences,” another play by Wilson, this time depicting life in the 1950’s. The characters in all his plays are three-dimensional with all shades of good and bad and wise and silly. I had no idea that both plays won a Pulitzer Prize, nor that “The Piano Lesson” was nominated both by the Golden Globes and Primetime Emmys. If you want something other than the silly Hollywood/TV cardboard characterizations of African-American life so prevalent on TV or the theatres, read this book or any other book you can find by August Wilson.