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  <title><![CDATA[The Piano Lesson]]></title>
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  <default_description>Set in 1936, The Piano Lesson is a powerful new play from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Fences and Ma Rainey's Black Bottom. A sister and brother fight over a piano that has been in the family for three generations, creating a remarkable drama that embodies the painful past and expectant future of black Americans.</default_description>
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  <original_publication_month type="integer">12</original_publication_month>
  <original_publication_year type="integer">1990</original_publication_year>
  <original_title>The Piano Lesson</original_title>
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      <name><![CDATA[August Wilson]]></name>
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  <read_at>Wed Oct 21 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Fri Oct 23 20:49:40 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is one of those family dramas that engaged my mind and my spirit from word one.  I can't even imagine the bliss I would experience if I actually saw this play staged.<br/><br/>Reading The Piano Lesson was a joyful experience for me because the characters were so immediately engaging.  Wilson ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74125978">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Tue Feb 10 19:09:17 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Feb 10 19:10:00 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This play is part of Wilson's Pittsburgh Cycle (sometimes know as the Century Cycle, it includes personal favorites such as &quot;Fences&quot; and &quot;Ma Rainy's Black Bottom&quot;) and follows the story of a family of black Southern sharecroppers who are divided as to whether to sell the family p...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45992250">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Jul 18 11:44:45 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Jul 18 11:50:15 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[As usual, Wilson manages a heady and deep exploration of issues facing African Americans through the context of highly believable characters confronted with the everyday challenges of life. The main issue here is how to balance the need to hang on to and perhaps celebrate a family history deeply int...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63995899">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="12116641">
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      <rating>3</rating>
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  <read_at>Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Wed Jan 09 19:44:31 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[The 1990 Pulitzer Winner about a brother and sister battling over a family heirloom (an intricately carved piano). The struggle over the piano (one wants to sell, the other doesn’t) symbolizes the struggle over opportunity and the historical lack thereof tied to culture and race. To the one wantin...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12116641">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="60133617">
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  <date_added>Wed Jun 17 22:15:37 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Jun 17 22:21:16 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[In some ways a sequel to A Raisin in the Sun, this is a more complex psychological drama, weaving together the black experience in the old South with the presumed better opportunities offered in a northern city. The central motif of the heirloom piano holds it all together. A masterpiece.]]></body>
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    <review id="54080834">
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  <read_at>Sun Apr 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Apr 26 20:23:48 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Apr 26 20:25:56 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I am reading this again to prepare to teach it over the summer. I always think I've got this play down, but another read brings me a fresh perspective. It is a great character study, depicting with clarity the struggle between past and present, memory and fulfillment of promise.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Nov 23 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Mon Nov 23 11:04:37 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[A great play - I really enjoyed wilson's language - I am looking forward to watching this on DVD, although I could kick myself for not seeing the original Broadway production when I had the chance!]]></body>
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    <review id="65327766">
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  <read_at>Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1995</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[A very gritty play in many respects, loving crafted with both the flaws and virtues of the characters.  Definitely worth seeing/reading.]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65327766]]></url>
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    <review id="24514880">
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    <location><![CDATA[Brooklyn, NY]]></location>        
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  <date_added>Sat Jun 14 19:14:45 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Jun 14 19:15:39 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I love instruement. I like to play piano. so i choose this book to read. In this book, it have the motif of ghost. where the Piano Lesson is appropriately haunted by ghosts: the ghost of Sutter, the Ghosts of the Yellow Dog, the ghosts of the ancestors, and, in a less supernatural sense, those of Cr...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24514880">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="67516897">
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    <name><![CDATA[Jessa]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[South Park, PA]]></location>        
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  <date_added>Sat Aug 15 13:03:24 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Aug 15 13:03:38 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[a must for any August Wilson fan]]></body>
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    <review id="46308312">
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    <name><![CDATA[Rebecca]]></name>
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  <read_at>Thu Feb 12 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Feb 14 05:35:12 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Feb 14 05:36:16 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Foreward by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6149.Beloved" title="Beloved by Toni Morrison">Toni Morrison</a> was good, but a spoiler.  I wish I had saved it to read last.  ]]></body>
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    <review id="29876973">
    <user id="1344992">
    <name><![CDATA[Ian]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Seattle, WA]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Fri Sep 05 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Aug 11 14:39:05 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Oct 12 16:02:54 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[The build up to the final scene is masterful. I think this play may fall into the catagory of &quot;better seen on stage&quot; rather then a read through.  Wilson is very accessable on the written page, but the ending to this play requires certain pauses and dramatic timing that can only be imagined...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29876973">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="15985908">
    <user id="42429">
    <name><![CDATA[Duane]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Fort Worth, TX]]></location>        
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      <rating>4</rating>
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  <read_at>Fri Feb 22 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Feb 21 08:07:04 -0800 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[A piano represents the history of a family with a tragic past. A brother and sister's conflict over what to do with the piano threatens to lead to more tragedy.  The sister clings to the piano as a symbol of the past; the brother wants to sell it and move on with his life.<br/>]]></body>
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    <review id="29684079">
    <user id="981917">
    <name><![CDATA[Amon]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[The United States]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Mon Aug 11 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Aug 09 07:33:28 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Aug 11 09:26:25 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[this play is an option in my curriculum. I don' t think my students would appreciate it, I myself was expecting something more teen friendly- I appreciate the &quot;lesson&quot; but don't think these are character's that my students will invest in.]]></body>
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    <review id="28442843">
    <user id="1221673">
    <name><![CDATA[Jen]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Las Vegas, NV]]></location>        
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      <rating>4</rating>
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  <date_updated>Sun Jul 27 14:14:41 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I love this play about a grown brother and sister who both want what is best for their family -- although their approach to how to acheive that is very different.  There is no right or wrong, just a very complex and moving portrait of a family.]]></body>
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    <review id="1034534">
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    <body><![CDATA[haha..this was actually my brother's reading assignment..but I couldn't help but skim through the book when I saw it just lying around. Well, it was better than any play I ever read in high school. ]]></body>
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    <review id="24323878">
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    <name><![CDATA[Kevinhattrup]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[Reading drama is tricky, but well worth your time. This belongs to Wilson's serial plays of the 20th century. Beautiful story of family trying to break the cycle of violence and oppression. ]]></body>
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    <review id="22686905">
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    <body><![CDATA[A story that will make anyone rethink the value of people and culture. It is a powerful thing to be reminded that money does not hold the foundation of happiness.  ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Read it for an American Literature course at university. Nothing I would have picked up myself, but it was ok.]]></body>
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