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Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992

Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992

Smith, Anna Deavere

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Literary CriticismClassic FictionPlays

Publisher Price: $18.00

ISBN10: 0385473761
ISBN13: 9780385473767
Publisher: Vintage
Published: Mar 15 1994
Pages: 320
Weight: 0.54
Height: 0.72 Width: 5.24 Depth: 8.02
Language: English
From an acclaimed playwright comes an American masterpiece (Newsweek) about the 1992 Los Angeles riots.

Twilight is a stunning work of documentary theater that explores the devastating human impact of the five days of riots following the Rodney King verdict. From nine months of interviews with more than two hundred people, Smith has chosen the voices that best reflect the diversity and tension of a city in turmoil: a disabled Korean man, a white male Hollywood talent agent, a Panamanian immigrant mother, a teenage black gang member, a macho Mexican-American artist, Rodney King's aunt, beaten truck driver Reginald Denny, former Los Angeles police chief Daryl Gates, and other witnesses, participants, and victims.

A work that goes directly to the heart of the issues of race and class, Twilight ruthlessly probes the language and the lives of its subjects, offering stark insight into the complex and pressing social, economic, and political issues that fueled the flames in the wake of the Rodney King verdict and ignited a conversation about policing and race that continues today.

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