Two Trains Running by August Wilson - ISBN: 9780452269293
Paperback
Pittsburgh, 1969: Unsung lives persevere amidst change and the fight for hope.

Two Trains Running

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  • Paperback

    128 pages

  • Release Date

    1 January 1993

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Summary

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Fences and The Piano Lesson comes a “vivid and uplifting” play about unsung men and women who are anything but ordinary.

August Wilson established himself as one of our most distinguished playwrights with his insightful, probing, and evocative portraits of Black America and the African American experience in the twentieth century. With the mesmerizing Two Trains Running, he crafted what Time magazine called “his most mature work to date.”

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780452269293
ISBN-10:0452269296
Author:August Wilson
Publisher:Penguin Putnam Inc
Imprint:New American Library
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:128
Release Date:1 January 1993
Weight:119g
Dimensions:202mm x 133mm x 9mm
Series:Drama, Plume
What They're Saying

Critics Review

Winner of the New York Drama Critics Circle Best Play Award “Vivid and uplifting… pure poetry… remarkable!”– Time

Winner of the New York Drama Critics Circle Best Play Award“Vivid and uplifting… pure poetry… remarkable!”—Time “A symphonic composition with a rich lode of humanity running through it.”—Los Angeles Times“His language is golden: rich in humor and poetry and redolent of a colorful vernacular.”—Wall Street Journal “Has an unassailable authenticity… a lot of life and a lot of humor… By the end, a small world has been utterly transformed.”—Variety “These characters are fully imagined—they live… reeling out stories about their past, their angers, their dreams.”—Washington Post “Wilson’s most adventurous and honest attempt to reveal the intimate nature of history… glorious storytelling… touching and often funny… a penetrating revelation of a world hidden from view.”—Frank Rich, The New York Times

About The Author

August Wilson

August Wilson was a major American playwright whose work has been consistently acclaimed as among the finest of the American theater. His first play, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, won the New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award for best new play of 1984-85. His second play, Fences, won numerous awards for best play of the year, 1987, including the Tony Award, the New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award, the Drama Desk Award, and the Pulitzer Prize. Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, his third play, was voted best play of 1987-1988 by the New York Drama Critics’ Circle. In 1990, Wilson was awarded his second Pulitzer Prize for The Piano Lesson. He died in 2005.

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