Lorraine

1995 · 9780679601722-2025 — Modern Library 1995. Hardcover. New/New. <p><strong>Author:</strong> Lorraine Hansberry</p><p><strong>Publisher:</strong> Modern Library</p><p><strong>Binding:</strong> Hardcover</p><p><strong>ISBN:</strong> 9780679601722</p><p><strong>Release Date:</strong> 1995</p><p><strong>Number Of Pages:</strong> 176</p><p><strong>Details:</strong> "Never before the entire history of the American theater has so much of the truth of black people's lives been seen on the stage" observed James Baldwin shortly before A Raisin in the Sun opened on Broadway in 1959.Indeed Lorraine Hansberry's award-winning drama about the hopes and aspirations of a struggling working-class family living on the South Side of Chicago connected profoundly with the psyche of black America--and changed American theater forever. The play's title comes from a line in Langston Hughes's poem "Harlem" which warns that a dream deferred might "dry up/like a raisin in the sun.""The events of every passing year add resonance to A Raisin in the Sun" said The New York Times. "It is as if history is conspiring to make the play a classic." This Modern Library edition presents the fully restored uncut version of Hansberry's landmark work with an introduction by Robert Nemiroff.</p> Modern Library hardcover