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Clybourne Park: [a play]

By Bruce , Norris

Book information

Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux;Faber and Faber
Year
2011
ISBN
9781466807747, 1466807741
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
163 kB (167030 bytes)
Pages
224 pages\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
African Americans--Illinois--Chicago--Social condi

Description

Clybourne Park spans two generations fifty years apart. In 1959, Russ and Bev are selling their desirable two-bedroom at a bargain price, unknowingly bringing the first black family into the neighborhood and creating ripples of discontent among the cozy white residents of Clybourne Park. In 2009, the same property is being bought by a young white couple, whose plan to raze the house and start again is met with equal disapproval by the black residents of the soon-to-be-gentrified area. Are the issues festering beneath the floorboards actually the same, fifty years on? The author's excruciatingly funny and squirm-inducing satire explores the fault line between race and property. -- Publisher description.

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