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Jitney by August Wilson (2002, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherAbrams, Inc.

ISBN-101585673706

ISBN-139781585673704

eBay Product ID (ePID)2405245

Product Key Features

Book TitleJitney

Number of Pages96 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicWar & Military, American / General

Publication Year2002

GenreDrama, Fiction

AuthorAugust Wilson

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.4 in

Item Weight3.5 Oz

Item Length8.3 in

Item Width5.6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

Dewey Edition23

Grade FromTwelfth Grade

Dewey Decimal812.54

SynopsisSet in the 1970s in Pittsburghs Hill District, and depicting gypsy cabdrivers who serve black neighborhoods, Jitney is the seventh in Wilsons 10-play cycle (one for each decade) on the black experience in twentieth century America., A major work by two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner August Wilson. A thoroughly revised version of a play August Wilson first wrote in 1979, Jitney was produced in New York for the first time in the spring of 2000, winning rave reviews and the accolade of the New York Drama Critics Circle Award as the best play of the year. Set in the 1970s in Pittsburghs Hill District, and depicting gypsy cabdrivers who serve black neighborhoods, Jitney is the seventh in Wilsons 10-play cycle (one for each decade) on the black experience in twentieth century America. He writes not about historical events or the pathologies of the black community, but, as he says, about the unique particulars of black culture . . . I wanted to place this culture onstage in all its richness and fullness and to demonstrate its ability to sustain us . . . through profound moments in our history in which the larger society has thought less of us than we have thought of ourselves.

LC Classification NumberPS3573.I45677