Joe Turner's Come and Gone (August Wilson Century Cycle) - Hardcover

Wilson, August

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1559362987 ISBN 13: 9781559362986

Publisher: Theatre Communications Group, 2008

Synopsis

Henry Loomis turns up at a boardinghouse to look for his missing wife.

About this title

About the Author:

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.

Review:

"As rich in religious feeling as in historical detail, Joe Turner is at once a teeming canvas of black America and a spiritual allegory with a Melville whammy . . . Joe Turner is flecked with hypnotic storytelling soliloquies as grittily redolent of itinerant America as those in The Iceman Cometh."—Frank Rich, The New York Times

"Has the haunting power of a ghost story . . . bold theatricality . . . electrifying."—The Washington Post

"August Wilson's best play!"—William A. Henry III, Time magazine

"Joe Turner's Come and Gone is one of the best American plays of the decade . . . he takes us through joy and disaster, hatred and love; he pulls few punches and in the end he has contributed not only to the stature of American playwrighting but to our understanding of our society. A rich, rewarding play, that rare work what entertains while it teaches."—The Providence Journal

About this edition

• Publisher: Theatre Communications Group
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1559362987
• ISBN 13: 9781559362986
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 120