, “...we’re all together Mama, just for a moment we’re happy, Let’s look at one another.”
On Amazon it states: Our Town was first produced and published in 1938 to wide acclaim. This Pulitzer Prize –winning drama of life in the town of Grover 's Corners, an allegorical representation of all life, has become a classic. It is Thornton Wilder's most renowned and most frequently performed play.
It is now reissued in this handsome hardcover edition, featuring a new Foreword by Donald Margulies, who writes, "You are holding in your hands a great American play. Possibly the great American play." In addition, Tappan Wilder has written an eye-opening new Afterword, which includes Thornton Wilder's unpublished notes and other illuminating photographs and documentary material.
MY REVIEW: i LOVE THIS BOOK! It emphasizes the importance of a town, neighbors, and family. The story take place in New Hampshire and a town named Grover’s Corners, not far from the state of Massachusetts. It is the 7th of May 1911 and the story is about a young girl named Emily. She grows up in the town and marries George a young man who lived in her neighborhood. She dies giving birth to their first child. Emily is allowed to go back for one day and she chooses her twelfth birthday and says, “...we’re all together. Mama, just for a moment we’re happy, Let’s look at one another.”
Don’t miss reading this amazing book.
LOVE THESE BOOKS!