{"product_id":"father-comes-home-from-the-wars-parts-1-2-3","title":"Father Comes Home from the Wars (Parts 1, 2 \u0026 3)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFinalist, 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Drama\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The finest work yet from this gifted writer.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOffered his freedom if he joins his master in the ranks of the Confederacy, Hero, a slave, must choose whether to leave the woman and people he loves for what may be another empty promise. As his decision brings him face to face with a nation at war with itself, the ones Hero left behind debate whether to escape or wait for his return, only to discover that for Hero, freedom may have come at a great spiritual cost. A devastatingly beautiful dramatic work, \u003ci\u003eFather Comes Home from the Wars (Parts 1, 2, \u0026amp; 3) \u003c\/i\u003eis the opening trilogy of a projected nine-play cycle that will ultimately take us into the present.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSuzan-Lori Parks \u003c\/b\u003ebecame the first African American woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for her play \u003ci\u003eTopdog\/Underdog \u003c\/i\u003ein 2002. Her other plays include \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Grace\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eIn the Blood\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eVenus\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFucking A\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eImperceptible Mutabilities in the Third Kingdom \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe America Play\u003c\/i\u003e. In 2007 her \u003ci\u003e365 Days\/365 Plays \u003c\/i\u003ewas produced at more than seven hundred theaters worldwide. Parks is a MacArthur Fellow and the Master Writer Chair at the Public Theater.\u003cbr\u003e\r\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Suzan-Lori Parks","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44506726301932,"sku":"9781559365000","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0684\/1791\/3068\/files\/9781559365000.jpg?v=1709306399","url":"https:\/\/intl.allstora.com\/products\/father-comes-home-from-the-wars-parts-1-2-3","provider":"Allstora","version":"1.0","type":"link"}