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

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Roots in a Parched Ground, Convicts, Lily Dale, the Widow Claire: Four Plays from the Orphans' Home Cycle - Foote, Horton
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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 by black convicts from a nearby prison. Even more devastating is the reunion ...

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Roots in a Parched Ground, Convicts, Lily Dale, the Widow Claire: Four Plays from the Orphans' Home Cycle 1994, Grove Press, New York, NY

ISBN-13: 9780802130815

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