A Raisin in the Sun
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  • AuthorLorraine Hansberry
  • PublisherVintage
  • Pages160
  • ISBN9798217008926

About this book

"The play that changed American theater forever." —The New York Times

First produced in 1959, A Raisin in the Sun was awarded the New York Drama Critics Circle Award and hailed as a watershed in American drama. Not only a pioneering work by a Black American playwright—Lorraine Hansberry’s play was also a radically new representation of Black life, resolutely authentic, fiercely unsentimental, and unflinching in its vision of what happens to people whose dreams are constantly deferred.

In her portrait of an embattled Chicago family, Hansberry anticipated issues that range from generational clashes to the civil rights and women’s movements. She also posed the essential questions—about identity, justice, and moral responsibility—at the heart of these great struggles. The result is an American classic.

Author: Lorraine Hansberry
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2027-01-12
Pages: 160
ISBN: 9798217008926

Praise for this book

A Raisin in the Sun has vigor as well as veracity.
Brooks Atkinson, The New York Times
The play that changed American theater forever.
Frank Rich, The New York Times
A beautiful, lovable play. It is affectionately human, funny and touching. . . . A work of theatrical magic in which the usual barrier between audience and stage disappears.
John Chapman, New York News
Hansberry has etched her characters with understanding, and told her story with dramatic impact. She has a keen sense of humor, an ear for accurate speech and compassion for people.
Robert Coleman, New York Mirror
One of the handful of great American plays—it belongs in the inner circle, along with Death of a Salesman, Long Day's Journey Into Night, and The Glass Menagerie.
The Washington Post
An honest, intelligible, and moving experience.
Walter Kerr, New York Herald Tribune

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