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A raisin in the sun : a drama in three acts
- Title
- A raisin in the sun : a drama in three acts / by Lorraine Hansberry.
- Author
- Hansberry, Lorraine, 1930-1965
- Publication
- New York : Random House, [1959]
- ©1959
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | 3769.968.374 | Off-site |
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- Additional Authors
- Description
- 142 pages : illustrations; 21 cm
- Summary
- "A three-act play concerned with the tensions in a black middle-class family in Chicago." --
- Series Statement
- A Random House play
- Uniform Title
- Random House play
- Subjects
- African Americans
- Discrimination in housing
- African American families
- United States
- Drama
- Acting editions
- Domestic drama
- Illinois > Chicago
- Race relations
- African Americans > History > 20th century > Drama
- United States > Race relations > Drama
- Discrimination in housing > Illinois > Chicago > Drama
- African Americans > Illinois > Chicago > Drama
- African American families > Illinois > Chicago > Drama
- Genre/Form
- Acting editions.
- Domestic drama.
- Drama.
- Autographs
- Clamshell boxes
- Provenance (note)
- From the library of James Baldwin. Signed by Baldwin on front free endpaper.
- Binding (note)
- Housed in custom half morocco clamshell box with marbled paper boards. Book has original dust jacket designed by Stan Phillips and Mel Williamson.
- Awards (note)
- Winner of the New York Drama Critics Circle award as the best play of the 1958-59 season.
- ISBN
- 0394406885
- 9780394406886
- LCCN
- 59010834
- OCLC
- ocm00284577
- SCSB-120214
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library