Courtship ; Valentine's Day ; 1918: Three plays from "The orphans' home cycle" - Hardcover

Foote, Horton

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9780394560748: Courtship ; Valentine's Day ; 1918: Three plays from "The orphans' home cycle"

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ISBN 10: 0394560744 ISBN 13: 9780394560748

Publisher: Grove Press, 1987

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This is the central volume in Horton Foote�€™s remarkable nine-play Orphans�€™ Home Cycle, in which the author chronicles the evolution of a family�€”the strengths that bind its members together and the strains that force them apart�€”and the cataclysmic changes in Southern society over twenty-six turbulent years.

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About the Author:

Horton Foote
Foote is the recipient of numerous awards, including a Pulitzer Prize, an Emmy, an Outer Critics Circle Award, and induction into the Theatre Hall of Fame.

Price attended North Carolina schools and received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Duke University.

From Library Journal:

Foote is a major American playwright. His disappearance from the Hollywood establishment after his 1963 Oscar for the screenplay of To Kill a Mockingbird, marks the start of work on his cycle of nine plays called The Orphan's Home. These plays are set in small town Texas between the turn of the century and 1928. They are loosely based on Foote's family and follow the marriage of Horace Robedaux and Elizabeth Vaughan through the turmoil of World War I, social and economic struggle, and alcoholism, insanity, and epidemic. The three plays anthologized here are the sixth, seventh, and eighth in the cycle. Their stage language is lyrical realism, which builds quietly to a depth of feeling and insight that rivals O'Neill at his best. Recommended.Thomas E. Luddy, English Dept., Salem State Coll., Mass.
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