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The year is 1979 and a serial killer in Atlanta, Georgia, is abducting and murdering young black children. Against a backdrop of fear and uncertainty, playwright Janine Nabers explores the emotional battleground where an African-American single mother wars with her teenage daughter, each coping in her own way with personal tragedy and loss. The volatility of their situation is intensified when a severely damaged and devastatingly handsome stranger becomes an integral part of their lives. Serial Black Face is the seventh winner of the DC Horn Foundation/Yale Drama Series Prize, selected by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Marsha Norman. At once startling, engrossing, suspenseful, and exhilarating, Nabers's powerful drama employs a real-life nightmare, the Atlanta Child Murders of the late 1970s, to incisively examine human frailty and the prickly complexities of a mother-daughter relationship. A stunning theatrical work, both thoughtful and profoundly moving, Serial Black Face is richly deserving of this year's prize.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Plays, playscripts

• Full title: Serial Black Face
• Author: Janine Nabers
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 128
• EAN: 9780300211375
• ISBN: 0300211376
• ID: 09232131
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Weight: 188 g
• Dimensions: 142 × 229 × 11 mm
• Date of publishing: 03. November 2015

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