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

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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 with his mother, his sister Lily Dale, and his new stepfather-a reunion that will leave him an orphan in spirit, if not in name.

Pages: 330

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Grove Press

Release: July 14, 1994

ISBN: 080213081X

ISBN 13: 9780802130815

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

4.4/5 ( ratings)

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 with his mother, his sister Lily Dale, and his new stepfather-a reunion that will leave him an orphan in spirit, if not in name.

Pages: 330

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Grove Press

Release: July 14, 1994

ISBN: 080213081X

ISBN 13: 9780802130815

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