Synopsis
Fences
$13.99 Published by Plume Books
The author of the 1984-85 Broadway season's best play, Ma Rainey`s Black Bottom,
returns with another powerful, stunning dramatic work that has won him new
critical acclaim and the Pulitzer Prize
The protagonist of Fences, Troy Maxson, is a strong man, a hard man. He has had to be - to survive
For Troy Maxson has gone through life in an America where to be proud and black was to face pressures that could crush a man, body and soul. But now the 1950s are yielding to the new spirit of liberation in the 1960s ...
A spirit that is changing the world Troy Maxson has learned to deal with the only way he can ... a spirit that is making him a stranger, angry and afraid, in a world he never knew and to a wife and son he understands less and less ...