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Seven Guitars

Seven Guitars

Wilson, August

Paperback

DanceBlack American StudiesPlays

Publisher Price: $14.00

ISBN10: 0452276926
ISBN13: 9780452276925
Publisher: Plume Books
Published: Aug 1 1997
Pages: 128
Weight: 0.25
Height: 0.40 Width: 5.30 Depth: 7.90
Language: English
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Fences and The Piano Lesson comes a captivating and resonant play--winner of the New York Drama Critics Circle Award.

It is the spring of 1948. In the still cool evenings of Pittsburgh's Hill district, familiar sounds fill the air. A rooster crows. Screen doors slam. The laughter of friends gathered for a backyard card game rises just above the wail of a mother who has lost her son. And there's the sound of the blues, played and sung by young men and women with little more than a guitar in their hands and a dream in their hearts.August Wilson's Seven Guitars is the sixth chapter in his continuing theatrical saga that explores the hope, heartbreak, and heritage of the African-American experience in the twentieth century. The story follows a small group of friends who gather following the untimely death of Floyd Schoolboy Barton, a local blues guitarist on the edge of stardom. Together, they reminisce about his short life and discover the unspoken passions and undying spirit that live within each of them.

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