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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.

A Soldiers Play

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    A Paperback / softback by Charles Fuller

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      Publisher Hill & Wang
      Published 1 September 1982
      ISBN-13 9780374521486
      978-0374521486
      ISBN-10 0374521484

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      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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