Roots in a Parched Ground, Convicts, Lily Dale, the Widow Claire: Four Plays from the Orphans' Home Cycle

by Horton Foote

Book Overview

Classical in its breadth and scope, Horton Foote's nine-play Orphans' Home Cycle begins with a father's death in a small Texas town at the turn of the century, a loss that sends his son, twelve-year-old Horace Robedaux, on an odyssey through the darkest corners of the heart. Caught in the rift between his father's and his mother's families, Horace is separated from what family he has left to spend a horrifying year on a decaying plantation worked...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080213081X
• ISBN13: 9780802130815
• Release Date: July 1994
• Publisher: Grove Press
• Length: 330 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.4" x 8.2"