A Raisin in the Sun

When it was first produced in 1959, A Raisin in the Sun was awarded the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for that season and hailed as a watershed in American drama. A pioneering work by an African-American playwright, the play was a radically new representation of black life. "A play that changed American theater forever."--The New York Times.

Product details

Author: Lorraine Hansberry; Robert Nemiroff (Introduction by)
Language: English
Vendor: Commercial
Publisher: New York : Vintage Books, 1994.
Publication date: 2004
ISBN: 9780679755333
Category: Book
Subcategory: Paperback
Added: June 12, 2009

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