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1	Fences: A Play more books like this by August Wilson, Lloyd Richards (Introduction by) add to wishlist 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 of FENCES, 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 ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.94! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Piano Lesson more books like this by August Wilson add to wishlist 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. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.49! \| first editions \| SVS
3	Ma Rainey's Black Bottom: A Play more books like this by August Wilson add to wishlist The time is 1927. The place is a run-down recording studio in Chicago. Ma Rainey, the legendary blues singer is due to arrive with her entourage to cut new sides of old favorites. Waiting for her are her black musician sidemen, the white owner of the record company, and her white manager. What goes down in the session to come is more than music. ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	Joe Turner's Come and Gone: A Play in Two Acts more books like this by August Wilson add to wishlist When Herald Loomis arrives at a black Pittsburgh boardinghouse after seven years' impressed labor on Joe Turner's chain gang, he is a free man-in body. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.00! \| first editions \| SVS
5	Jitney more books like this by August Wilson add to wishlist The seventh in Wilson's intended 10-play cycle of works depicting African-American culture during each of the decades of the 20th century, JITNEY is set in Pittburgh's Hill District during the 1970s. The lives of jitney chauffeurs are dramatized against the larger backdrop of the famous black neighborhood. The 2000 New York Production of JITNEY ... see all copies from $5.00! new only from $7.50! \| first editions \| SVS
6	Gem of the Ocean more books like this by August Wilson add to wishlist "No one except perhaps Eugene O'Neill and Tennessee Williams has aimed so high and achieved so much in the American theater."-John Lahr, "The New Yorker" "A swelling battle hymn of transporting beauty. Theatergoers who have followed August Wilson's career will find in Gem a touchstone for everything else he has written."-Ben Brantley, "The New ... see all copies from $3.29! new only from $8.36! \| SVS
7	King Hedley II more books like this by August Wilson add to wishlist The eighth work in playwright August Wilson's ten-play cycle chronicling the history of the African-American experience in each decade of the 20th century, "King Hedley II" is set in 1985 and tells the story of an ex-con in post-Reagan Pittsburgh trying to rebuild his life. see all copies from $5.19! new only from $8.25! \| first editions \| SVS
8	August Wilson: Three Plays more books like this by August Wilson, Paul Carter Harrison (Photographer) add to wishlist This collection features "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom," voted Best Play of 1984-85 by the New York Drama Critics' Circle, "Fences," winner of the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, and "Joe Turner's Come and Gone," voted Best Play of 1987-88 by the New York Drama Critics' Circle. see all copies from $22.94! new only from $23.46! \| first editions \| SVS
9	Two Trains Running more books like this by August Wilson add to wishlist Two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner August Wilson continues to explore the African-American experience. In Two Trains Running, Wilson evokes the changes wrought by the '60s on the regulars of a dingy Pittsburgh diner--survivors struggling to cope with the world and fighting back when they can. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.99! \| signed copies \| first editions
10	Radio Golf more books like this by August Wilson, Suzan-Lori Parks (Foreword by) add to wishlist "The concluding work in one of the most ambitious dramatic projects ever undertaken . . . a play that could well be Mr. Wilson's most provocative."-Ben Brantley, The New York Times "Radio Golf is a rich, carefully wrought human tapestry that is colorful, playful, thoughtful and compelling."-Ed Kaufman, The Hollywood Reporter Radio Golf is ... see all copies from $4.95! new only from $8.36! \| SVS
11 view cover	Seven guitars more books like this by August Wilson add to wishlist Pulitzer Prize-winner August Wilson's "Seven Guitars" is the sixth chapter in the continuing theatrical saga that explores the hope, heartbreak, and heritage of the African American experience in the twentieth century. Winner of the New York drama Critics Circle award for Best New Play, it is "a play whose epic proportions and abundant spirit ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	Fences more books like this by August Wilson add to wishlist 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 of FENCES, 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 ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	August Wilson Century Cycle by August Wilson add to wishlist "The Century Cycle" is August Wilson's epic dramatization of the African-American experience and heritage in the 20th century. Wilson's extraordinary lifework has been called one of the most ambitious dramatic projects ever undertaken. "(New York Times)" It is presented here for the first time in its entirety in a ten-volume, hardcover, slipcased ... see all copies from $103.23! new only from $118.71!
14 view cover	Seven Guitars: 8 more books like this by August Wilson add to wishlist A play depicting life among the African Americans of Pittsburgh's Hill district in the late 1940s, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Fences" and "The Piano Lesson". see all copies from $1.99! new only from $24.99! \| signed copies \| first editions
15 view cover	Fences: 1957 more books like this by August Wilson, Samuel G Freedman (Foreword by) add to wishlist 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 of FENCES, 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 ... see all copies from $14.41! new only from $14.92! \| SVS
16 view cover	Speak My Name more books like this by Don Belton (Editor), August Wilson (Foreword by) add to wishlist College teacher and author of ALMOST MIDNIGHT, Don Belton has collected the work of Derrick Bell, Trey Ellis, Haki Madhubuti, Clarence Major, Walter Mosley, Quincy Troupe, John Edgar Wideman, and August Wilson, among others, to explore the intimate territory behind the myths about black masculinity. "An honest, important book". LOS ANGELES TIMES ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| SVS
17 view cover	The ground on which I stand more books like this by August Wilson add to wishlist A passionate polemic from one of America's leading black playwrights. August Wilson makes a controversial call for black cultural separatism, asking for blacks and whites alike to alter their perception of black culture and black theatre. Written with a rhetorical energy, the work argues for the recognition that blacks are as much founders of ... see all copies from $5.11! new only from $5.19! \| first editions \| SVS
18	Speak My Name: Black Men on Masculinity and the American Dream more books like this by Don Belton (Editor), August Wilson (Foreword by) add to wishlist Through the voices of some of today's most prominent African-American writers, this collection of essays and stories on contemporary African-American men's experience explores the intimate territory beyond the myths about brutalizing and bruatalized black men in a harsh white world. Includes works by Houston Baker, Amiri Baraka, Henry Louis Gates, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.99! \| signed copies \| first editions
19 view cover	Ma Rainey's Black Bottom more books like this by August Wilson add to wishlist The time is 1927. The place is a run-down recording studio in Chicago. Ma Rainey, the legendary blues singer is due to arrive with her entourage to cut new sides of old favorites. Waiting for her are her black musician sidemen, the white owner of the record company, and her white manager. What goes down in the session to come is more than music. ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $62.16! \| first editions
20 view cover	Radio Golf: 1997 more books like this by August Wilson, Suzan-Lori Parks (Foreword by) add to wishlist "The concluding work in one of the most ambitious dramatic projects ever undertaken . . . a play that could well be Mr. Wilson's most provocative."-Ben Brantley, The New York Times "Radio Golf is a rich, carefully wrought human tapestry that is colorful, playful, thoughtful and compelling."-Ed Kaufman, The Hollywood Reporter Radio Golf is ... see all copies from $8.62! new only from $14.92! \| SVS
21 view cover	Two Trains Running: 1969 more books like this by August Wilson, Laurence Fishburne (Foreword by) add to wishlist Set during the civil rights movement, at the lunch counter of Memphis Lee's diner. see all copies from $5.40! new only from $14.92! \| SVS
22	Imperial Kaiser: Life of William II by August Wilson add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.95! \| first editions
23 view cover	Gem of the Ocean: 1904 more books like this by August Wilson, Phylicia Rashad (Foreword by), John Lahr (Introduction by) add to wishlist "No one except perhaps Eugene O'Neill and Tennessee Williams has aimed so high and achieved so much in the American theater."-John Lahr, "The New Yorker" "A swelling battle hymn of transporting beauty. Theatergoers who have followed August Wilson's career will find in Gem a touchstone for everything else he has written."-Ben Brantley, "The New ... see all copies from $13.50! new only from $14.92! \| SVS
24 view cover	The Piano Lesson: 1936 more books like this by August Wilson, Toni Morrison (Foreword by) add to wishlist A Pulitzer Prize-winner. Brother is pitted against sister over the fate of their heirloom piano. see all copies from $12.98! new only from $14.92! \| SVS
25 view cover	Seven Black Plays: The Theodore Ward Prize for African American Playwriting more books like this by Chuck Smith, Jr. (Editor), August Wilson (Foreword by) add to wishlist Showcases a selection of award-winning African American drama. The seven plays represent a wide range of talents, experience and perspectives brought to bear on diverse themes, from a unique moment in the history of baseball's Negro League to a working-class couple contending with a bully. see all copies from $21.82! new only from $21.82! \| SVS

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