Piano Lesson

Contributor(s): Wilson, August (Author)

ISBN: 9780452265349

Publisher: Plume Books

Binding Types:

Paperback

$15.00

Digicover (1-4 copies)

$27.95 (Final Price)

Readerbound (5-99 copies)

$26.75 (100+ copies: $26.00)

List/retail price:

$15.00

Pub Date: December 1, 1990

Dewey: 812.54

LCCN: 90038735

Lexile Code: 0000

Features: Price on Product

Target Age Group: 18 to UP

Physical Info: 0.40" H x 7.90" L x 5.20" W ( 0.30 lbs) 144 pages

BISAC Categories:

Drama | African American and Black | Literary Criticism | American

Series: Drama, Plume

Accelerated Reader® Info

Quiz #:0000070609 ( Piano Lesson)

Reading level: 3.60

Interest level: UG

Point value: 4.0

Descriptions, Reviews, etc.

Description: Set 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.

Review Quotes: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama
Winner of the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Play

"Heart-stopping... The play's real music is in the language... Mr. Wilson's most virtuosic writing to date."--The New York Times

"Stupendous... rich and resonant."--The Washington Post

"Feisty, ebullient, exuberant... Wilson is a consummate storyteller."--Los Angeles Times

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