{"product_id":"les-blancs-the-collected-last-plays-the-drinking-gourd-what-use-are-flowers-paperback","title":"Les Blancs: The Collected Last Plays: The Drinking Gourd\/What Use Are Flowers? - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLorraine Hansberry\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHere are Lorraine Hansberry's last three plays--Les Blancs, The Drinking Gourd, and What Use Are Flowers?--representing the capstone of her achievement. Includes a new preface by Jewell Gresham Nemiroff and a revised introduction by Margaret B. Wilkerson.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLorraine Hansberry\u003c\/b\u003e, at twenty-nine, became the youngest American, the fifth woman, and the first black playwright to win the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for the Best Play of the Year. Her \u003ci\u003eA Raisin in the Sun\u003c\/i\u003e has since been published and produced in some 30 countries, while her film adaptation was nominated by the New York critics for the Best Screenplay and received a Cannes Film Festival Award. At thirty-four, during the run of her second play, \u003ci\u003eThe Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window\u003c\/i\u003e, Lorraine Hansberry died of cancer. In the years since her death, her stature has continued to grow. \u003ci\u003eTo Be Young, Gifted and Black\u003c\/i\u003e, a dramatic portrait of the playwright in her own words, was the longest-running Off-Broadway drama of 1969, and has been recorded, filmed, and published in expanded book form, and has toured an unprecedented forty states and two hundred colleges. In 1986, following the stage production of the 25th anniversary of \u003ci\u003eA Raisin in the Sun\u003c\/i\u003e by the Roundabout Theatre in New York City, the play was widely acclaimed as in the foremost ranks of American classics. In 1990, the PBS \u003ci\u003eAmerican Playhouse\u003c\/i\u003e TV adaptation of the 25th-anniversary version had one of the highest viewing audiences in PBS history. \u003ci\u003eLes Blancs\u003c\/i\u003e, her last play--posthumously performed on Broadway and recently in prominent regional theaters--has been hailed by a number of critics as her best.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 288\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 8 x 5.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 13, 1994\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51756898058528,"sku":"9780679755326","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/5321731533e38cbc908db5305e44034e.webp?v=1780088663","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/les-blancs-the-collected-last-plays-the-drinking-gourd-what-use-are-flowers-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}