{"product_id":"a-raisin-in-the-sun-the-unfilmed-original-screenplay","title":"A Raisin in the Sun (The Unfilmed Original Screenplay)","description":"\"Never before, in 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.\n\nThis edition presents the fully restored, uncut version of Hansberry's landmark work with an introduction by Robert Nemiroff.\n\nLorraine 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.\"\n\n\"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.\"\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 0679755330\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: LFV.0679755330.N\u003cbr\u003eCondition: New\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Lorraine Hansberry|Robert Nemiroff\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Mass market paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Books for Life","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46850225144005,"sku":"LFV.0679755330.N","price":6.86,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0650\/2914\/4773\/files\/0679755330-0.jpg?v=1788368894","url":"https:\/\/www.booksforlife.store\/products\/a-raisin-in-the-sun-the-unfilmed-original-screenplay","provider":"Books for Life","version":"1.0","type":"link"}