Joe Turner's Come and Gone
10 Apr 2008Size: 220mm x 144mm
Joe Turner's Come and Gone
Hardback
Set in 1911 in a boarding house in Pittsburgh, Joe Turner's Come and Gone deals with a time in American history when the sons and daughters of recently freed slaves journeyed to the booming industrial cities of the North in search of prosperity, a new way of life, and, essentially, their own identities.
The play is part of August Wilson's Century Cycle, his epic dramatisation of the African American experience in the twentieth century.
This edition includes a Foreword by Romulus Linney.
'A great writer shows us how it is done' Romulus Linney, from his Foreword
'Tremendous... a richly symbolic study of the need to both acknowledge, and reject, the psychic burden of slavery'
Guardian'A power and humanity that are understated yet immense'
Time Out10 Apr 2008Size: 220mm x 144mm
