Fences
Penguin Publishing Group · Print & ebook · June 1, 1986
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- Who it’s for
- August Wilson’s drama brings the pressures of race, family, and change into sharp focus.
- Genres
- African American Plays, American Plays, Cultural Diversity
- Published
- Penguin Publishing Group, June 1, 1986
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From legendary playwright August Wilson comes the powerful, stunning dramatic bestseller that won him critical acclaim, including the Tony Award for Best Play and the Pulitzer Prize. Troy Maxson is a strong man, a hard man. He has had to be to survive. Troy Maxson has gone through life in an America where to be proud and black is to face pressures that could crush a man, body and soul.
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But the 1950s are yielding to the new spirit of liberation in the 1960s, a spirit that is changing the world Troy Maxson has learned to deal with the only way he can, a spirit that is making him a stranger, angry and afraid, in a world he never knew and to a wife and son he understands less and less. This is a modern classic, a book that deals with the impossibly difficult themes of race in America, set during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 60s. Now an Academy Award-winning film directed by and starring Denzel Washington, along with Academy Award and Golden Globe winner Viola Davis.
Change and Conflict
August Wilson’s drama brings the pressures of race, family, and change into sharp focus.
Come here for
- A family drama shaped by race and America’s changing times
- Tension between old certainties and a new spirit of liberation
Expect
- A stage-rooted story set amid the Civil Rights Movement
- A portrait of a man unsettled by a changing world
Where it sits
| African American Plays | 86% |
|---|---|
| American Plays | 51% |
| Cultural Diversity | 23% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- American Plays
- African American Plays
- African American Studies
- Authors
- August Wilson
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Published
- June 1, 1986
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Reading lane
- American Plays