Fences (Bound for Schools & Libraries)

Publisher Marketing: The author of the 1984-85 Broadway season's best play, MA RAINEY'S BLACK BOTTOM, returns with another powerful, stunning dramatic work that has won him new critical acclaim and the Pulitzer Prize. The protagonist of FENCES, Troy Maxson, is a strong man, a hard man. He has had to be - to survive. For Troy Maxson has gone through life in an America where to be proud and black was to face pressures that could crush a man, body and soul. But now the 1950s 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... Review Citations: Wilson Senior High Core Col 01/01/1997 pg. 364 (EAN 9780452264014, Paperback) Wilson Senior High Core Col 01/01/2002 pg. 355 (EAN 9780452264014, Paperback) Wilson Public Library Catalog 01/01/2004 pg. 621 (EAN 9780452264014, Paperback) Wilson Senior High Core Col 01/01/2007 pg. 461 (EAN 9780452264014, Paperback) Wilson Public Library Catalog 12/31/2008 pg. 804 (EAN 9780452264014, Paperback) Wilson Senior High Core Col 01/01/2011 pg. 568 (EAN 9780452264014, Paperback) Wilson Public Library Catalog 01/01/2013 pg. 965 (EAN 9780452264014, Paperback) Wilson Public Library Catalog 01/01/1993 pg. 625 (EAN 9780452258426, Paperback) Wilson Senior High Core Col 01/01/1992 pg. 380 (EAN 9780452258426, Paperback) Contributor Bio:  Wilson, August August Wilson is the most influential and successful African American playwright writing today. He is the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Fences, The Piano Lesson, King Hedley II, Ma Rainy's Black Bottom, Joe Turner's Come and Gone, Seven Guitars, Two Trains Running, Jitney and Radio Golf. His plays have been produced all over the world. Contributor Bio:  Richards, Lloyd Lloyd Devereux Richards was born in New York City and traveled extensively in Europe, Africa, and Central America before attending law school. He previously served as a senior law clerk for an Indiana Court of Appeals judge, researching and writing drafts for dozens of published opinions, including the appeal of a serial killer sentenced to death. A father of three, he lives with his wife, Cameron O?Connor, and their two dogs in Montpelier, Vermont. Stone Maidens is his first novel.