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A Raisin in the Sun
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A Raisin in the Sun Hardcover - 2002

by Lorraine Hansberry


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A Raisin in the Sun is the best-known work of author and playwright Lorraine Hansberry. It debuted on Broadway in 1959, making Hansberry the first African American woman to achieve this honor. The title comes from the poem "Harlem" by Langston Hughes. 

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Never before, the entire history of the American theater, has so much of the truth of black people's lives been seen on the stage, observed James Baldwin shortly before A Raisin in the Sun opened on Broadway in 1959. Indeed Lorraine Hansberry's award-winning drama about the hopes and aspirations of a struggling, working-class family living on the South Side of Chicago connected profoundly with the psyche of black America--and changed American theater forever. The play's title comes from a line in Langston Hughes's poem Harlem, which warns that a dream deferred might dry up/like a raisin in the sun. The events of every passing year add resonance to A Raisin in the Sun, said The New York Times. It is as if history is conspiring to make the play a classic. This Modern Library edition presents the fully restored, uncut version of Hansberry's landmark work with an introduction by Robert Nemiroff.

First line

The YOUNGER living room would be a comfortable and well-ordered room if it were not for a number of indestructible contradictions to this state of being.

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  • Title A Raisin in the Sun
  • Author Lorraine Hansberry
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition Reprint
  • Pages 160
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Random House (NY), New York
  • Date May 7, 2002
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780375508332 / 0375508333
  • Weight 0.61 lbs (0.28 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.1 x 5.56 x 0.67 in (20.57 x 14.12 x 1.70 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects African American families - Illinois -
  • Dewey Decimal Code 812.54
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