Horton Foote

Farewell

A Memoir of a Texas Childhood

Buch

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 h… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-684-86570-6
EAN: 9780684865706
Produktnummer: 9645284
Verlag: Simon & Schuster N.Y.
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2000
Seitenangabe: 288 S.
Ausstattung: Trade Paperback
Masse: H21.4 cm x B14.0 cm x D1.8 cm 279 g
Abbildungen: s/w. Abb.
Gewicht: 279

Über den Autor

Horton Foote has written and adapted dozens of plays and screenplays, including The Trip to Bountiful, The Young Man from Atlanta, Tender Mercies, and To Kill a Mockingbird. Foote has won Academy and Writers Guild awards, as well as the Pulitzer Prize. In 1996 he was elected to the Theatre Hall of Fame, and in 1998, to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He also received the Academy's Gold Medal for Drama for his life's work.