num_pages: 72
description: This drama in three acts won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1981. Set in a small Mississippi town, the play examines the lives of three quirky sisters who have gathered back home. During the course of the week the sisters unearth grudges, criticize each other, reminisce about their family life, and attempt to understand their mother's suicide years earlier.
language: English
title: Crimes of the Heart
titlecomplete: Crimes of the Heart
genres: Theatre, Drama, Classics, College, Adult, Plays, Read For School, School, Fiction, Womens
ratings_count: 7081
awards: awardedAt: 347184000000
name: Pulitzer Prize
category: Drama
publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.