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Seven Guitars - Paperback By Wilson, August - GOOD
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Brand
- Unbranded
- MPN
- Does not apply
- ISBN
- 9780452276925
- Book Title
- Seven Guitars
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Item Length
- 8 in
- Publication Year
- 1997
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.4 in
- Genre
- Drama, Performing Arts, Social Science
- Topic
- Dance / Jazz, American / General, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
- Item Weight
- 5.1 Oz
- Item Width
- 5.2 in
- Number of Pages
- 128 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0452276926
ISBN-13
9780452276925
eBay Product ID (ePID)
593173
Product Key Features
Book Title
Seven Guitars
Number of Pages
128 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Dance / Jazz, American / General, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
Publication Year
1997
Genre
Drama, Performing Arts, Social Science
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.4 in
Item Weight
5.1 Oz
Item Length
8 in
Item Width
5.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
20
Reviews
"The seven guitars of the title are the seven characters whose straightforward story lines Wilson turns into beautiful, complex music--a funky wailing, irresistible Chicago blues." --John Lahr, The New Yorker "Riveting. . . . Wilson's mastery of time and character has never been more apparent." -- Boston Globe "A play whose epic proportions and abundant spirit remind us of what the American theater once was. . . . As funny as it is moving and lyrical." --Vincent Canby, New York Times "August Wilson is a remarkable American playwright. Seven Guitars is a formidably impressive tragi-comedy. This writing is as like and unlike Arthur Miller, as Duke Ellinton is as like and unlike Igor Stravinsky." --Clive Barnes, New York Post "Full of quiet truth . . . mesmerizing . . . a major voice in our theater . . . unusually powerful." --Howard Kissel, New York Daily News "A gritty, lyrical polyphony of voices that evokes the character and destiny of men and women who can't help singing the blues even when they're just talking. Bristles with symbolism, with rituals of word and action that explode into anguished eloquence and finally into violence." --Jack Kroll, Newsweek, "The seven guitars of the title are the seven characters whose straightforward story lines Wilson turns into beautiful, complex music—a funky wailing, irresistible Chicago blues." —John Lahr, The New Yorker "Riveting. . . . Wilson''s mastery of time and character has never been more apparent." — Boston Globe "A play whose epic proportions and abundant spirit remind us of what the American theater once was. . . . As funny as it is moving and lyrical." —Vincent Canby, New York Times "August Wilson is a remarkable American playwright. Seven Guitars is a formidably impressive tragi-comedy. This writing is as like and unlike Arthur Miller, as Duke Ellinton is as like and unlike Igor Stravinsky." —Clive Barnes, New York Post "Full of quiet truth . . . mesmerizing . . . a major voice in our theater . . . unusually powerful." —Howard Kissel, New York Daily News "A gritty, lyrical polyphony of voices that evokes the character and destiny of men and women who can''t help singing the blues even when they''re just talking. Bristles with symbolism, with rituals of word and action that explode into anguished eloquence and finally into violence." —Jack Kroll, Newsweek, "The seven guitars of the title are the seven characters whose straightforward story lines Wilson turns into beautiful, complex music—a funky wailing, irresistible Chicago blues." —John Lahr, The New Yorker "Riveting. . . . Wilson's mastery of time and character has never been more apparent." — Boston Globe "A play whose epic proportions and abundant spirit remind us of what the American theater once was. . . . As funny as it is moving and lyrical." —Vincent Canby, New York Times "August Wilson is a remarkable American playwright. Seven Guitars is a formidably impressive tragi-comedy. This writing is as like and unlike Arthur Miller, as Duke Ellinton is as like and unlike Igor Stravinsky." —Clive Barnes, New York Post "Full of quiet truth . . . mesmerizing . . . a major voice in our theater . . . unusually powerful." —Howard Kissel, New York Daily News "A gritty, lyrical polyphony of voices that evokes the character and destiny of men and women who can't help singing the blues even when they're just talking. Bristles with symbolism, with rituals of word and action that explode into anguished eloquence and finally into violence." —Jack Kroll, Newsweek
Grade From
Twelfth Grade
Dewey Decimal
812/.54
Grade To
UP
Synopsis
Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Fences and The Piano Lesson Winner of the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Play It is the spring of 1948. In the still cool evenings of Pittsburgh's Hill district, familiar sounds fill the air. A rooster crows. Screen doors slam. The laughter of friends gathered for a backyard card game rises just above the wail of a mother who has lost her son. And there's the sound of the blues, played and sung by young men and women with little more than a guitar in their hands and a dream in their hearts.August Wilson's Seven Guitars is the sixth chapter in his continuing theatrical saga that explores the hope, heartbreak, and heritage of the African-American experience in the twentieth century. The story follows a small group of friends who gather following the untimely death of Floyd "Schoolboy" Barton, a local blues guitarist on the edge of stardom. Together, they reminisce about his short life and discover the unspoken passions and undying spirit that live within each of them., Pulitzer Prize-winner August Wilson's "Seven Guitars" is the sixth chapter in the continuing theatrical saga that explores the hope, heartbreak, and heritage of the African American experience in the twentieth century. Winner of the New York drama Critics Circle award for Best New Play, it is "a play whose epic proportions and abundant spirit remind us of what the American theater once was".--Vincent Canby, "The New York Times"., Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Fences and The Piano Lesson Winner of the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Play It is the spring of 1948. In the still cool evenings of Pittsburgh's Hill district, familiar sounds fill the air. A rooster crows. Screen doors slam. The laughter of friends gathered for a backyard card game rises just above the wail of a mother who has lost her son. And there's the sound of the blues, played and sung by young men and women with little more than a guitar in their hands and a dream in their hearts. August Wilson's Seven Guitars is the sixth chapter in his continuing theatrical saga that explores the hope, heartbreak, and heritage of the African-American experience in the twentieth century. The story follows a small group of friends who gather following the untimely death of Floyd "Schoolboy" Barton, a local blues guitarist on the edge of stardom. Together, they reminisce about his short life and discover the unspoken passions and undying spirit that live within each of them.
LC Classification Number
PS3573.I45677
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