A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry

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A Raisin in the Sun - Lorraine Hansberry - "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, working-class family living on the South Side of Chicago connected profoundly with the psyche of black America--and changed American theater forever.  The play's title comes from a line in Langston Hughes's poem "Harlem," which warns that a dream deferred might "dry up/like a raisin in the sun." "The events of every passing year add resonance to A Raisin in the Sun ," said The New York Times .  "It is as if history is conspiring to make the play a classic."  This Modern Library edition presents the fully restored, uncut version of Hansberry's landmark work with an introduction by Robert Nemiroff.

Name: A Raisin in the Sun
Vendorname: Penguin Random House LLC
Price: $6.99
Title: A Raisin in the Sun - Lorraine Hansberry
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Artist: Lorraine Hansberry
Category: Theater
Releasedate: 2004-11-29T00:00:00-07:00