| Fagon: Plays: 11 Josephine House; The Death of a Black Man; Lonely Cowboy Contributor(s): Fagon, Alfred (Author) |
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ISBN: 1840021373 ISBN-13: 9781840021370 Publisher: Oberon Books OUR PRICE: $23.70 Product Type: Paperback Published: September 2000 Annotation: "11 Josephine House" is set in Bristol in the 1970s, and pushed froward by religion, drink, love and hate. "Death of a Blackman" unfolds like a dream, created a reality in which the only thing to be sure of is the need to make it in a white man's world. "Lonely Cowboy" is play about searching for identity in Brixton in the eighties. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Drama | European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
| Dewey: 822 |
| LCCN: 2003430523 |
| Series: Oberon Modern Playwrights |
| Physical Information: 0.51" H x 5.19" W x 8.27" (0.61 lbs) 214 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Includes the plays 11 Josephine House, The Death of a Black Man and Lonely Cowboy Jamaican-born Fagon came to England at the age of 18, working first on the railways, and then enlisting in the army, where he became a boxing champion. He soon became a leading figure in black theatre. His characters, with explosive consequences, struggle to live in a hostile British culture as exiles from their spiritual home. This collection spans the whole of Fagon's remarkable writing career. He died in 1986 at the tragically early age of 49. |