ByLorraine Hansberry

This edition presents the fully restored, uncut version of Hansberrys landmark work with an introduction by Robert Nemiroff.

Lorraine Hansberrys award-winning drama about the hopes and aspirations of a struggling, working-class family living on the South Side of Chicago connected profoundly with the psyche of Black Americaand changed American theater forever. The plays title comes from a line in Langston Hughess poem Harlem, which warns that a dream deferred might dry up/like a raisin in the sun.