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A Raisin in the Sun
A Raisin in the Sun
Written by Lorraine Hansberry
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780679755333
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A Raisin in the Sun

Written by Lorraine Hansberry

Format: Paperback, 160 pages
On Sale: November 29, 2004
Price: $7.00

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... Read more >
Also available as a hardcover.
To Be Young, Gifted and Black
To Be Young, Gifted and Black
Written by Lorraine Hansberry
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780679764151
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To Be Young, Gifted and Black

Written by Lorraine Hansberry

Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: January 3, 1996
Price: $13.95

In her first play, the now-classic A Raisin in the Sun, Hansberry introduced the lives of ordinary African Americans into our national theatrical repertory. Now, Hansberry tells her own life story in an autobiography that rings with the voice of its creator. "Brilliantly alive."--The New York Times. Read more >
A Raisin in the Sun
A Raisin in the Sun
Written by Lorraine Hansberry
Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780679601722
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A Raisin in the Sun

Written by Lorraine Hansberry

Format: Hardcover, 176 pages
On Sale: August 22, 1995
Price: $15.95

"Never before, the entire history of the American theater, has so much of the truth of black people's lives been seen on the stage," observed James Baldwin shortly before A Raisin in the Sun opened on Broadway in 1959.

Indeed Lorraine Hansberry's award-winning drama about the hopes and aspirations of a struggling... Read more >
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A Raisin in the Sun and The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window
A Raisin in the Sun and The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window
Written by Lorraine Hansberry
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780679755319
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A Raisin in the Sun and The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window

Written by Lorraine Hansberry

Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: June 13, 1995
Price: $14.00

By the time of her death thirty years ago, at the tragically young age of thirty-four, Lorraine Hansberry had created two electrifying masterpieces of the American theater. With A Raisin in the Sun, Hansberry gave this country its most movingly authentic portrayal of black family life in the inner city. Barely... Read more >
Les Blancs: The Collected Last Plays
Les Blancs: The Collected Last Plays
Written by Lorraine Hansberry
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780679755326
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Les Blancs: The Collected Last Plays
The Drinking Gourd/What Use Are Flowers?
Written by Lorraine Hansberry

Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: December 13, 1994
Price: $13.95

Here are Lorraine Hansberry's last three plays--Les Blancs, The Drinking Gourd, and What Use Are Flowers?--representing the capstone of her achievement. Includes a new preface by Jewell Gresham Nemiroff and a revised introduction by Margaret B. Wilkerson. Read more >
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