Gem of the Ocean
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Author | : August Wilson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 89 |
Release | : 2007 |
ISBN-10 | : 155936307X |
ISBN-13 | : 9781559363075 |
Rating | : 4/5 (7X Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Gem of the Ocean by : August Wilson
Book excerpt: Gem of the Ocean is the play that begins it all. Set in 1904 Pittsburgh, it is chronologically the first work in August Wilson's decade-by-decade cycle dramatizing the African American experience during the 20th century--an unprecedented series that includes the Pulitzer Prize-winning plays Fences and The Piano Lesson. Aunt Esther, the drama's 287-year-old fiery matriarch, welcomes into her Hill District home Solly Two Kings, who was born into slavery and scouted for the Union Army, and Citizen Barlow, a young man from Alabama searching for a new life.