August Wilson's Two Trains Running - Paperback

by August Wilson (Author)

Finalist! 1992 Pulitzer Prize in Drama

This is the 1960s chapter of the Pulitzer Prize winning playwright's decade by decade saga of ordinary African Americans in this turbulent century. It takes place in Memphis Lee's coffee shop in a Pittsburgh neighborhood that is on the brink of economic development. Focus is on the characters who hang out there: a local sage an elderly man who imparts the secrets of life as learned from a 322 year old sage an ex con a numbers runner a laconic