The Piano Lesson (Bound for Schools and Librarie)

Brief Description: For use in schools and libraries only. When Boy Willie wants to sell the family's prized upright piano to purchase some land, the family must re-evaluate the piano's true worth. Publisher Marketing: August Wilson has already given the American theater such spell-binding plays about the black experience in 20th-century America as "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, Joe Turner's Come and Gone, " and the Pulitzer Prize-winning, "Fences." In his second Pulitzer Prize-winner, "The Piano Lesson, " Wilson has fashioned his most haunting and dramatic work yet. At the heart of the play stands the ornately carved upright piano which, as the Charles family's prized, hard-won possession, has been gathering dust in the parlor of Berniece Charles's Pittsburgh home. When Boy Willie, Berniece's exuberant brother, bursts into her life with his dream of buying the same Mississippi land that his family had worked as slaves, he plans to sell their antique piano for the hard cash he needs to stake his future. But Berniece refuses to sell, clinging to the piano as a reminder of the history that is their family legacy. This dilemma is the real "piano lesson, " reminding us that blacks are often deprived both of the symbols of their past and of opportunity in the present. Review Citations:

Wilson Public Library Catalog 01/01/1993 pg. 625 (EAN 9780525249269, Hardcover)

Wilson Senior High Core Col 01/01/1992 pg. 380 (EAN 9780525249269, Hardcover)

Wilson Senior High Core Col 01/01/2007 pg. 461 (EAN 9780525249269, Hardcover)

Wilson Public Library Catalog 01/01/1993 pg. 625 (EAN 9780452265349, Paperback)

Wilson Senior High Core Col 01/01/1992 pg. 380 (EAN 9780452265349, Paperback)

Wilson Senior High Core Col 01/01/1997 pg. 365 (EAN 9780452265349, Paperback)

Wilson Public Library Catalog 01/01/1998 pg. 598 (EAN 9780452265349, Paperback)

Wilson Senior High Core Col 01/01/2002 pg. 355 (EAN 9780452265349, Paperback)

Ebony 11/01/2005 pg. 44 (EAN 9780452265349, Paperback)

Wilson Public Library Catalog 01/01/2004 pg. 622 (EAN 9780452265349, Paperback)

Wilson Senior High Core Col 01/01/2007 pg. 461 (EAN 9780452265349, Paperback)

Wilson Public Library Catalog 12/31/2008 pg. 805 (EAN 9780452265349, Paperback)

Wilson Senior High Core Col 01/01/2011 pg. 569 (EAN 9780452265349, Paperback)

Wilson Public Library Catalog 01/01/2013 pg. 966 (EAN 9780452265349, Paperback)

Contributor Bio:  Wilson, August August Wilson is the most influential and successful African American playwright writing today. He is the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Fences, The Piano Lesson, King Hedley II, Ma Rainy's Black Bottom, Joe Turner's Come and Gone, Seven Guitars, Two Trains Running, Jitney and Radio Golf. His plays have been produced all over the world.