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When it was first produced in 1959, A Raisin in the Sun was awarded the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for that season and hailed as a watershed in American drama. A pioneering work by an African-American playwright, the play was a radically new representation of black life. "A play that changed American theater forever."
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Amgash novels volume 1
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English
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"Lucy Barton is recovering slowly from what should have been a simple operation. Her mother, to whom she hasn't spoken for many years, comes to see her. Gentle gossip about people from Lucy's childhood in Amgash, Illinois, seems to reconnect them, but just below the surface lie the tension and longing that have informed every aspect of Lucy's life: her escape from her troubled family, her desire to become a writer, her marriage, her love for her two...
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Shay Benson adored her younger brother, Caden, and that got her into trouble. When he owed money, Shay realized she would do anything to help him avoid the men who were threatening him, and she crossed lines she never should have crossed. Now, determined to start fresh, she finds herself in search of a place to stay and wanders into a church to escape from the cold. Pastor Drew Douglas adored his wife. But when he lost her, it was all he could do...
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English
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"Can one man be that unlucky? Elisa Wright is a mom and wife, living a nice, quiet life in a nice, quiet town. She's also convinced her brother-in-law is a murderer. Josh has one dead wife and one missing fiancée, and though he grieved for them he starts dating someone new. Elisa fears for that woman's safety, and she desperately wants to know what happened to her friend, Josh's missing fiancée. Searching for clues means investigating her own family....
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Publisher
New Directions
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
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Amanda, a faded southern belle, abandoned wife, and dominating mother, hopes to match her daughter Laura with an eligible "gentleman caller" while her son Tom supports the family. Laura, lame and painfully shy, evades her mother's schemes and reality by retreating to the make-believe world of her glass animal collection. Tom eventually leaves home to become a writer but is forever haunted by the memory of Laura.
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New American Library
Pub. Date
[1986]
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English
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Troy Maxson is a strong man, a hard man. He has had to be so to survive. Now, the 1950s are yielding to the the new spirit of liberation in the 1960s. The world he has learned to deal with is changing, leaving him a stranger, angry and afraid, in a world he never knew and to a wife and son he understands less and less.
10) Macbeth
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Español
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Provocado por las profec̕as de tres brujas misteriosas y acosado por su ambiciosa esposa, el gigante escočs Macbeth asesina a Duncan, rey de Escocia, para sucederlo en el trono. Esta mala acci̤n pronto enreda al noble acosado por la conciencia en una red de traiciones, engąos y m̀s asesinatos, que en l͠tima instancia deletrea su destino.
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Vintage Books
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
For years, Sister Margaret Alexander has moved her Harlem congregation with a mixture of personal charisma and ferocious piety. But when Margaret's estranged husband, a scapegrace jazz musician, comes home to die, she is in danger of losing both her standing in the church and the son she has tried to keep on the godly path.
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Publisher
Theatre Communications Group
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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"Over dinner with another married couple, George and her husband grow fascinated by stories of their friends' new acquaintance -an intriguing younger woman named Pip, who is both polyamorous and hunts her own meat. What begins as an innocent intellectual discussion turns into a sexually explosive New Year's Eve party after George extends an invitation to Pip and her two live-in boyfriends. Raising the question of what ultimately binds human beings...
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Samuel French
Pub. Date
[1964]
Language
English
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Paul and Corie Bratter are newlyweds in every sense of the word. He's a straight-as-an-arrow lawyer and she's a free spirit always looking for the latest kick. Their new apartment is her most recent find-too expensive with bad plumbing and in need of a paint job. After a six day honeymoon, they get a surprise visit from Corie's loopy mother and decide to play matchmaker during a dinner with their neighbor-in-the-attic Velasco, where everything that...
19) Wolf play
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Samuel French, an imprint of Concord Theatricals Corp
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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"A Korean boy is ushered into a new house by his adopted American father. This new house belongs to an American boxer and their wife. American father un-adopts boy be a single signature on a piece of paper. But just before he leaves the new house, ex-father discovers that the new parents, to whom he has 're-homed' his ex-son, are a lesbian couple. American ex-father spends the rest of the play trying to get the boy back. In his corner is Ryan, the...
20) Fairview: a play
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Publisher
Theatre Communications Group
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Grandma's birthday approaches. Beverly is organizing the perfect dinner, but everything seems doomed from the start: the silverware is all wrong, the carrots need chopping and the radio is on the fritz. What at first appears to be a family comedy takes a sharp, sly turn into a startling examination of deep-seated paradigms about race in America"--
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