The piano lesson / by August Wilson.

August Wilson has already given the American theater such spell-binding plays about the black experience in 20th-century America as Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, Joe Turner's Come and Gone, and the Pulitzer Prize-winning, Fences. In his second Pulitzer Prize-winner, The Piano Lesson, Wilson ha...

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Main Author: Wilson, August.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Plume, [1990]
Series:Plume drama.
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