| Farewell: A Memoir of a Texas Childhood Contributor(s): Foote, Horton (Author) |
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ISBN: 068486570X ISBN-13: 9780684865706 Publisher: Scribner Book Company OUR PRICE: $18.04 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2000 Annotation: The award-winning author of "The Trip to Bountiful" and "Tender Mercies" returns to his roots at the age of 82 to introduce the place and the people that influenced his path as a writer--and as a man. 11 photos. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures - Biography & Autobiography | Entertainment & Performing Arts - Biography & Autobiography | Historical |
| Dewey: B |
| Physical Information: 0.71" H x 5.55" W x 8.54" (0.81 lbs) 288 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 20th Century - Cultural Region - Deep South - Cultural Region - Gulf Coast - Cultural Region - Southeast U.S. - Cultural Region - South - Cultural Region - Southwest U.S. - Cultural Region - Western U.S. - Geographic Orientation - Texas - Topical - Family - Demographic Orientation - Small Town |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: For more than five decades, Horton Foote, the Chekhov of the small town, has chronicled the changes in American life -- both intimate and universal. His adaptation of Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird and his original screenplay Tender Mercies earned him Academy Awards. He received an Indie Award for Best Writer for The Trip to Bountiful and a Pulitzer Prize for The Young Man from Atlanta. In his plays and films, Foote has returned over and over again to Wharton, Texas, where he was born and where he lives, once again, in the house in which he grew up. Now for the first time, in Farewell, Foote turns to prose to tell his own story and the stories of the real people who have inspired his characters. His memoir is both a celebration of the immense importance of community and evidence that even a strong community cannot save a lost soul. Farewell is as deeply moving as the best of Foote's writing for film and theater, and a gorgeous testimony to his own faith in the human spirit |