Fences
Title:
Fences
Author:
Wilson, August.
Richards, Lloyd, 1919-2006.
ISBN:
9780735216686
Edition:
Plume movie tie-in edition.
Publication Information:
New York, New York : Plume, c2016.
Physical Description:
xviii, 101 p. ; 21 cm
General Note:
"Now a major motion picture"-cover.
Abstract:
The protagonist of Fences (part of Wilsons ten-part Pittsburgh Cycle plays), 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. 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.
Geographic Term:
Subject:
| African Americans -- Drama. |
| African American families -- Drama. |
| Fathers and sons -- Drama. |
| Nineteen fifties -- Drama. |
| Conflict of generations -- Drama. |
| Pittsburgh (Pa.) -- Drama. |
Summary:
The protagonist of Fences (part of Wilsons ten-part Pittsburgh Cycle plays), 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. 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.