Eden

By: Steve Carter

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Paperback | 28 August 2024

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98 Pages

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21.59 x 13.97 x 0.51

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Set in 1927 in New York City, EDEN revolves around Eustace, a happy-go-lucky African American man, who makes the mistake of falling in love with the girl next door, Annetta, daughter of an autocratic West Indian, Joseph Barton, who rules his household with an iron fist: he literally whips his belief in racial purity into his children with a cat-o'-nine-tails.

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"The setting is a black neighborhood in New York, circa 1927: a cultivated West Indian family lives across the hallway from an uneducated but thoroughly decent young man from the American South. The young man falls in love with one of the daughters of the West Indian household. Shadings of cultural differences, an exploration of unfamiliar attitudes of black toward black ... [The play uses] theatrical devices that are as bald as they are ancient. But author Carter knows that, and is struggling all the way to cross the obvious with the unexpected, the simplistic with sophisticated nuance ... the author - who is plainly talented - was right to try to look for layers of personality rather than empty outlines, to upend our easy first sympathies and examine them closely for something that might be truer." -The New York Times

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