{"product_id":"the-piano-lesson-9780452265349","title":"The Piano Lesson","description":"\u003cb\u003eWinner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and winner of the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Play, this modern American classic is about family, and the legacy of slavery in America. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAugust Wilson has already given the American theater such spell-binding plays about the black experience in 20th-century America as\u003ci\u003e Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, Joe Turner's Come and Gone, \u003c\/i\u003e and the Pulitzer Prize-winning \u003ci\u003eFences\u003c\/i\u003e. In his second Pulitzer Prize-winner, \u003ci\u003eThe Piano Lesson, \u003c\/i\u003e Wilson has fashioned perhaps his most haunting and dramatic work. \u003cp\u003eAt the heart of the play stands the ornately carved upright piano which, as the Charles family's prized, hard-won possession, has been gathering dust in the parlor of Berniece Charles's Pittsburgh home. When Boy Willie, Berniece's exuberant brother, bursts into her life with his dream of buying the same Mississippi land that his family had worked as slaves, he plans to sell their antique piano for the hard cash he needs to stake his future. But Berniece refuses to sell, clinging to the piano as a reminder of the history that is their family legacy. This dilemma is the real \"piano lesson,\" reminding us that blacks are often deprived both of the symbols of their past and of opportunity in the present.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Plume Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/01\/1990\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780452265349\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 108\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.90h x 5.20w x 0.40d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAward:\u003c\/b\u003e Pulitzer Prize - Winner\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eEbony\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/01\/2005 pg. 44\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAccelerated Reader Quiz #\/Name: \u003c\/b\u003e70609 \/ Piano Lesson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReading Level:\u003c\/b\u003e 3.6 \/ \u003cb\u003eInterest Level:\u003c\/b\u003e Upper Grade \/ \u003cb\u003ePoint Value:\u003c\/b\u003e 4\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"August Wilson","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36637475438748,"sku":"9780452265349","price":12.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_402b31fb-2928-42a8-8631-9c648c8b3586.jpg?v=1603844863","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-piano-lesson-9780452265349","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}