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Beauty's Daughter, Monster, The Gimmick: Three Plays (1st ed.)

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The sheer exuberance of language that pours forth in Dael Orlandersmith's plays has dazzled critics and audiences alike.

In these three pieces, the award-winning writer and performer celebrates the power of words to rescue the young black women she portrays from their constricted worlds.In the Obie Award-winning play Beauty's Daughter, Diane yearns to free herself from her soul-deadening surroundings, where people drown their unfulfilled aspirations in drugs and alcohol.

In Monster, Theresa imagines a life in the rock-'n'-roll poetry bohemia of Manhattan's Lower East Side and away from her home in East Harlem, where she is scorned as a misfit. And in The Gimmick, Alexis escapes her brutal reality among the library bookshelves, where she dreams of becoming a writer in Paris.

Charged with fearless wisdom, these three electrifying plays transform rage-filled ghetto experience into a triumph of rhapsodic expression.From the Trade Paperback edition.

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0307482057 / 9780307482051
eBook (EPUB)
812.54
24/02/2010
English
128 pages
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