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During the 1950s Troy Maxson struggles against racism and tries to preserve his feelings of pride in himself.
 
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Do you build Fences to keep your family in? Or to keep intruders out?

Date of Review:  Dec 5, 2007
The Bottom Line: The Bottom Line wishes Fences were never necessary...
Review: August Wilson's play Fences has been well received to say the least since its first staged reading in 1983. It has since won the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award, the Pulitzer Prize, and the John Gassner Outer Critics' Circle Award. In its first...
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Fences: Focusing on the (Invisible) African-American Working Class

Date of Review:  Oct 21, 2003
The Bottom Line: Fences is a remarkable masterpiece of oral tradition as he focuses on a black working-class family's struggles to the changing times in 1950s America.
Review: I brought this novel as a text for my African-American Literature course in high school. Later, I needed this book again for my African-American Culture course at Northwestern University (Evanston, IL). August Wilson wrote about the illumination and...
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A Well Written Play

Date of Review:  May 21, 2000
Review: August Wilson's play, "Fences", shows the thoughts and emotions probably encountered by most African-Americans in the 1950's. In the play, the main character Troy Maxson is portrayed as a bitter former baseball player not satisfied with his...
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Authors August Wilson
Fiction Genre Drama • Family & Relationships
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  Format: Hardcover - Prebinding
Publisher: Bt Bound (October 01, 1999)
Measurements: 8.25"(h) x 5.5"(w) x 0.75"(d), 0.5 lbs.
ISBN: 9780785796114
 
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