Raisin in the Sun, A
by Lorraine Hansberry
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Author: Lorraine HansberryReader: Ossie Davis
Reader: Ruby Dee
Edition: Audio Cassette
Format: Audiobook, Unabridged
Published: 1991-01-01
ISBN: 1559943785
Publisher: Caedmon
Book Reviews of Raisin in the Sun, A
Book Review: Good book - better play
Summary: 4 Stars
It is a nice book. The characters personalities made the book good. If the characters were changed the book wouldn't be as good. The story shows the life of a black family in Chicago and their struggles through the years they lived there.
Summary of Raisin in the Sun, A
"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.
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