{"product_id":"a-raisin-in-the-sun","title":"A raisin in the sun","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBook info:\u003c\/strong\u003e A raisin in the sun (Hardcover, 176 pages – Modern Library, 1995) – Modern Library, 1995. Language: Eng.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Never before, the entire history of the American theater, has so much of the truth of black people's lives been seen on the stage,\" observed James Baldwin shortly before A Raisin in the Sun opened on Broadway in 1959.Indeed Lorraine Hansberry's award-winning drama about the hopes and aspirations of a struggling, working-class family living on the South Side of Chicago connected profoundly with the psyche of black America--and changed American theater forever.  The play's title comes from a line in Langston Hughes's poem \"Harlem,\" which warns that a dream deferred might \"dry up\/like a raisin in the sun.\"\"The events of every passing year add resonance to A Raisin in the Sun,\" said The New York Times.  \"It is as if history is conspiring to make the play a classic.\"  This Modern Library edition presents the fully restored, uncut version of Hansberry's landmark work with an introduction by Robert Nemiroff.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lorraine Hansberry","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52369093624090,"sku":"9780679601722","price":191.42,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0999\/2699\/9322\/files\/71dInHIUz_L._SY522.jpg?v=1781767080","url":"https:\/\/medicampus.store\/products\/a-raisin-in-the-sun","provider":"medicampus.store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}