Clybourne Park
Subtitle: [a play]
By: Bruce Norris
Edition: 1st American ed.
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 210
ISBN-13: 9780865478688
Subjects: Drama; American literature
Description: Clybourne Park spans two generations fifty years apart. In 1959, Russ and Bev are selling their desirable two-bedroom at a bargain price, unknowingly bringing the first black family into the neighborhood and creating ripples of discontent among the cozy white residents of Clybourne Park. In 2009, the same property is being bought by a young white couple, whose plan to raze the house and start again is met with equal disapproval by the black residents of the soon-to-be-gentrified area. Are the issues festering beneath the floorboards actually the same, fifty years on? The author's excruciatingly funny and squirm-inducing satire explores the fault line between race and property. -- Publisher description.