TY - SER
KW - boarding houses
KW - Polish Americans
KW - ex-convicts
KW - steel industry
KW - Black Americans
KW - Protestants
AU - August Wilson
AB - After false arrest and seven years' impressed labor on Joe Turner’s chain gang, Herald Loomis returns to Pittsburgh a free man in search of his wife. “Loomis’ quest for the wife he was torn from takes him and his daughter to a Pittsburgh boarding house,” says <em>USA Today</em>. “There he meets Bynum Walker, an aging conjurer whose singing is thought to have mystical powers. The often tense relationship between African spirituality and Christianity, a key factor in Wilson's work, feeds the interaction between these characters.”
C1 - 1911
C3 - Allegheny County; Monongahela River; Pittsburgh; Hill District; Rankin; Cambria County; Johnstown
C4 - Literary; Black; Slum; Psychological
CY - New York
LA - English
M3 - Playscript
N2 - After false arrest and seven years' impressed labor on Joe Turner’s chain gang, Herald Loomis returns to Pittsburgh a free man in search of his wife. “Loomis’ quest for the wife he was torn from takes him and his daughter to a Pittsburgh boarding house,” says <em>USA Today</em>. “There he meets Bynum Walker, an aging conjurer whose singing is thought to have mystical powers. The often tense relationship between African spirituality and Christianity, a key factor in Wilson's work, feeds the interaction between these characters.”
PB - New American Library
PP - New York
PY - 1988
RN - August Wilson (1945-2005), born Frederick August Kittel Jr. in Pittsburgh's Hill District neighborhood, won two Pulitzer Prizes for Drama. He died in Seattle and is buried in Greenwood Cemetery in O’Hara Twp., Allegheny County.
EP - 94 p.
TI - Joe Turner's Come and Gone
ER -