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Media Fiction Genre Drama Media Pulitzer Prize Suzan-Lori Parks - Topdog/underdog

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Identity and family are explored when two brothers are predisposed to sibling rivalry after being christened "Lincoln" and "Booth."

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Authors	Suzan-Lori Parks
Fiction Genre	Drama • Family & Relationships
Fiction Subgenre	• • • •
Awards	2002 Pulitzer Prize

Professional Reviews

Professional Reviews

<b><i>New York Times</i>:</b> "[A] thrilling comic drama....The play...vibrates with the clamor of big ideas, audaciously and exuberantly expressed. Like INVISABLE MAN Ralph Ellison's landmark novel of 1952, TOPDOG/UNDERDOG considers nothing less than the existential traps of being African-American and male in the United States, the masks that wear the men as well as vice versa...Ms. Parks demonstrates that she can shape a captivating narrative without sacrificing her high thematic ambitions. She even incorporates one of the more far-fetched metaphoric devices from her AMERICAN PLAY into TOPDOG--the idea of a black man portraying Abraham Lincoln in an arcade shooting booth--and gets you to accept it without blinking."

Book Editions

Book Editions

Paperback109February 01, 2002Theatre Communications Group8.5"(h) x 5.25"(w) x 0.25"(d), 0.35 lbs.9781559362016

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