Author: Charles Fuller Year: 1982 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Play, Classic, Fiction
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ISBNs: 9780374521486 0374521484 |
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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, 1982
A black sergeant cries out in the night, "They still hate you," then is shot twice and falls dead.
Set in 1944 at Fort Neal, a segregated army camp in Louisiana, Charles Fuller's forceful drama--which has been regularly seen in both its original stage and its later screen version starring Denzel Washington--tracks the investigation of this murder. But A Soldier's Play is more than a detective story: it is a tough, incisive exploration of racial tensions and ambiguities among blacks and between blacks and whites that gives no easy answers and assigns no simple blame.
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