August Wilson's King Hedley II - Softcover

Wilson, August

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0573704759 ISBN 13: 9780573704758

Publisher: Samuel French, Inc., 2015

Synopsis

Finalist! 2000 Pulitzer Prize in Drama

Peddling stolen refrigerators in the feeble hope of making enough money to open a video store, King Hedley, a man whose self worth is built on self delusion, is scraping in the dirt of an urban backyard trying to plant seeds where nothing will grow. Getting, spending, killing and dying in a world where getting is hard and killing is commonplace are threads woven into this 1980's installment in the author's renowned cycle of plays about the black ex

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0573704759
• ISBN 13: 9780573704758
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 114