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Joe Turner's Come and Gone
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Drama / Casting: 6m, 5f / Scenery: Interior Sets Set in a black boardinghouse in Pittsburgh in 1911, this drama by the author of The Piano Lesson, Seven Guitars and Fences is an installment in the author's series chronicling black life in each decade of this century. Each denizen of the boardinghouse has a different relationship to a past of slavery as well as to the urban present. They include the proprietors, an eccentric clairvoyant with a penchant for old country voodoo, a young homeboy u
First published: 1988 172 pages
ISBN: 0573691428
- Category
- Drama
- Priority
- Must-Read
- Author works
- 4
- Language
- eng
DramaBoardinghousesAfrican AmericansNineteen tensAfrican American familiesAmerican drama (dramatic works by one author)Nineteen ninetiesReal estate developmentAfrican American neighborhoodsNineteen sixties
