num_pages: 646
description: 1989, hardcover edition, Grove Press / Stage and Screen, NY. 646 pages. A collection of plays by the talented playwright / screenwriter, Horton Foote. The volume includes the entire 9-play cycle. "Will take its rightful place near the center of our largest American dramatic achievements--a slowly generated, slowly won, apparently effortless, surprisingly wide vision of human life. It is a permanent gift." Includes an introduction by the author himself, another by novelist Reynolds Price, and one more by Samuel Freedman.
language: English
title: The Orphans' Home Cycle: Roots in a Parched Ground / Convicts / The Widow Claire / Courtship / Valentine's Day / Lily Dale / 1918 / Cousins / The Death of Papa
titlecomplete: The Orphans' Home Cycle: Roots in a Parched Ground / Convicts / The Widow Claire / Courtship / Valentine's Day / Lily Dale / 1918 / Cousins / The Death of Papa
genres: Plays, Drama
ratings_count: 9
series: The Orphans' Home Cycle
publisher: Grove Press