"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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 11/29/2004
ISBN: 9780679755333
Pages: 160
Weight: 0.20lbs
Size: 6.70h x 4.10w x 0.50d
Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 56457 / Raisin in the Sun
Reading Level: 5.5 / Interest Level: Upper Grade / Point Value: 5