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Fences : A Play

by August Wilson

Synopsis

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 ofFences, 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...

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Book Information

Copyright year 1986
ISBN-13 9780452264014
ISBN-10 0452264014
Class Copyright
Publisher Plume
Subject Drama
File Size 0 MB
Number of Pages 119
Shelf No. GY685
Grade Range 12-13
Ages 18-99
Lexile NPL