OL2983758W Page_number_confidence 79.41 Pages 138 Ppi 500 Related-external-id urn:isbn:1439513716 The piano’s lesson, then, is also a lesson that asks African Americans to value family ties and to acknowledge their personal involvement in the legacy of slavery. Wilson died Sunday of liver cancer in Seattle. Urn:lcp:pianolesson00wils_0:epub:3eabe18e-fb2b-4b0e-a580-a7b2914c4189 Extramarc University of Toronto Foldoutcount 0 Identifier pianolesson00wils_0 Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t0cv5mf3f Isbn 9780525249269Ġ525249265 Lccn 90038734 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.17 Openlibrary OL1878401M Openlibrary_edition NPRs Bob Mondello has an appreciation of playwright August Wilson, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning dramas, Fences and The Piano Lesson. The play focuses on a very tangible legacythe carved piano. From the Hallmark Hall of Fame Collection. In The Piano Lesson Wilson explores the idea of legacy on several levels: as something tangible with monetary value, as something emotional related to a parents hopes when making a bequest to a child, and as something cultural that knits together groups and generations. Urn:lcp:pianolesson00wils_0:lcpdf:c98b31f5-74e2-4909-846b-98d1cdc8c2ac The Piano Lesson A family is torn by the choice of keeping a valuable family heirloom piano or selling it to improve their lives.
Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 09:16:07 Bookplateleaf 0005 Boxid IA172901 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York Donorįriendsofthesanfranciscopubliclibrary External-identifier Set in 1936 Pittsburgh during the aftermath of the Great Depression, The Piano Lesson follows the lives of the Charles family in the Doaker Charles household and an heirloom, the family piano, which documents the family history through carvings made by their enslaved ancestor.
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