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The Piano Lesson

By August Wilson

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A carved piano in the Charles family home holds a record of family members who lived under slavery. Boy Willie wants to sell it to buy land, while his sister Berniece insists on keeping it. Their argument gives Wilson a way to ask what descendants owe the past and how an inheritance can help shape the future.

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Edition and subjects

ISBN-13
9781559363006
Publisher
Theatre Communications Group
Edition date
2008
First published
1990
African American Literary Legends Art, Culture & Creative Expression Family history Theatre Great Depression Adults

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