Clybourne Park A Play

Name: Clybourne Park A Play
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ISBN: 9780865478688

ISBN-10: 0865478686

ISBN-13: 9780865478688

Edition: 2011

Authors: Bruce Norris

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Clybourne Parkspans two generations fifty years apart. In 1959, Russ and Bev are selling their desirable two-bedroom at a bargain price, unknowingly bringing the first black family into the neighborhood (borrowing a plot line from Lorraine Hansberry’sA Raisin in the Sun) and creating ripples of discontent among the cozy white residents of Clybourne Park. In 2009, the same property is being bought by a young white couple, whose plan to raze the house and start again is met with equal disapproval by the black residents of the soon-to-be-gentrified area. Are the issues festering beneath the floorboards actually the same, fifty years on? Bruce Norris’s excruciatingly funny and squirm-inducing…

Book details

List price: $18.00
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Publication date: 8/16/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 5.61" wide x 8.27" long x 0.64" tall
Weight: 0.616
Language: English

Bruce Norris is an American actor and playwright associated with the Steppenwolf Theatre Company of Chicago. His works include The Pain and the Itch and Clybourne Park , winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama 2011.