Farewell: a Memoir of a Texas Childhood
Foote, Horton. New York: Scribner (Scribners), 1999. Moderate shelfwear to dustjacket. From the dj, 'For more than five decades, Horton Foote, 'the Chekhov of the small town,' has chronicled with compassion and acuity the changes in American life - both intimate and universal. His adaptation of Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockinbird 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.'.Media shipping $3.50
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