From legendary playwright August Wilson comes the powerful stunning dramatic bestseller that
won him critical acclaim including the Tony Award for Best Play and the Pulitzer Prize. Troy
Maxson is a strong man a hard man. He has had to be to survive. Troy Maxson has gone through
life in an America where to be proud and black is to face pressures that could crush a man
body and soul. But 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. This is a modern classic a book that deals with the
impossibly difficult themes of race in America set during the Civil Rights Movement of the
1950s and 60s. Now an Academy Award-winning film directed by and starring Denzel Washington
along with Academy Award and Golden Globe winner Viola Davis.
