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Author Wilson, August.

Title Gem of the ocean / August Wilson.

Publication Info. New York : Theatre Communications Group ; St. Paul, MN : Distributed to the Book trade by Consortium Book Sales and Distribution, 2006.
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 East Hartford, Raymond Library - Adult Department  812 WILSON    Check Shelf
Edition 1st ed.
Description 85 pages ; 22 cm
Summary 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.
Note Cast: 5 men, 2 women.
Subject Hill District (Pittsburgh, Pa.) -- Drama.
African American neighborhoods -- Drama.
African Americans -- Drama.
Pittsburgh (Pa.) -- Drama.
African American neighborhoods. (OCoLC)fst00799277
African Americans. (OCoLC)fst00799558
Pennsylvania -- Pittsburgh. (OCoLC)fst01205171
Pennsylvania -- Pittsburgh -- Hill District. (OCoLC)fst01318452
Genre/Form Drama. (OCoLC)fst01423879
Historical drama.
Other Form: Online version: Wilson, August. Gem of the ocean. 1st ed. New York : Theatre Communications Group ; St. Paul, MN : Distributed to the Book trade by Consortium Book Sales and Distribution, 2006 (OCoLC)607771906
Online version: Wilson, August. Gem of the ocean. 1st ed. New York : Theatre Communications Group ; St. Paul, MN : Distributed to the Book trade by Consortium Book Sales and Distribution, 2006 (OCoLC)607935868
ISBN 1559362804 (paperback)
9781559362801 (paperback)
9781559362801
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