Gem of the Ocean.
| Publisher | Midwest Book Review |
| Publication | Internet Bookwatch |
| Subject | Literature/writing |
| Format | Magazine/Journal |
| Issues per Year | 12 |
| Published | 2008-01-01 |
| Role | Type | Name |
| Reviewee | n/a | August Wilson |
| Related Content | Type |
| Gem of the Ocean | Salem on Literature |
Gem of the Ocean
August Wilson
Theatre Communications Group
520 Eighth Avenue, 24th floor, New York, NY 10018-4156
9781559362801, $13.95 www.amazon.com
Broadway theater playwright August Wilson presents Gem of the Ocean, the first play in a ten-play cycle about the African-American experience during the modern twentieth century. Set in 1904 Pittsburgh, Gem of the Ocean follows a long-lived, fierce-willed matriarch and the two men she welcomed into her Hill District home: Solly Two Kings, who was born into slavery and served the Union...
[This journal article is 140 words long]
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