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Joe Turner's come and gone

  • August Wilson

5.00

2 ratings

When Herald Loomis arrives at an African-American Pittsburgh boardinghouse, after seven years' impressed labor on Joe Turner's chain gang, he is a free man--in body.

Genres

  • Drama
  • Boardinghouses
  • African Americans
  • Nineteen tens
  • African American families
  • American drama (dramatic works by one author)
  • Nineteen nineties
  • Real estate development
  • African American neighborhoods
  • Nineteen sixties
  • Blues musicians
  • Musicians
  • Nineteen twenties
  • Taxicab drivers
  • Nineteen seventies
  • Fathers and sons
  • Nineteen fifties
  • Siblings
  • Sharecroppers
  • Land tenure
  • Heirlooms
  • Nineteen thirties
  • Brothers and sisters
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About the author

  • August Wilson

    1945 - 2005

    3.60

    20 ratings · 30 works

Editions

  • Edition cover

    S. French

    1990

  • Edition cover

    S. French

    1990

  • Edition cover

    1st ed

    Theatre Communications Group, Distributed to the book trade by Consortium Book Sales and Distribution

    2007

  • Edition cover

    Samuel French acting ed.

    Samuel French

    2010

  • Edition cover

    Theatre Communications Group

    September 2007

  • Edition cover

    New American Library

    1988

  • Edition cover

    New American Library

    1988

  • Edition cover

    1st electronic ed.

    Alexander Street Press

    2004

  • Edition cover

    Samuel French

    1990

  • Edition cover

    1st ed.

    Theatre Communications Group, Distributed by Consortium

    2008

  • Edition cover

    New American Library

    1988