Farewell
Subtitle: a memoir of a Texas childhood
By: Horton Foote.
Publisher: Scribner
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 287
Subjects: Foote, Horton -- Childhood and youth; Foote, Horton -- Homes and haunts -- Texas -- Wharton; Dramatists, American -- 20th century -- Biography; Screenwriters -- United States -- Biography; Family -- Texas; Texas -- Intellectual life -- 20th century; Texas -- Social life and customs; Wharton (Tex.) -- Biography
Genres: Biography.
Description: 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.

Foote beautifully maintains the child's-eye view, so that we gradually discover, as did he, that something was wrong with his Brooks uncles, that none of them proved able to keep a job or stay married or quit drinking. We see his growing understanding of all sorts of trouble - poverty, racism, injustice, martial strife, depression and fear. His memoir is both a celebration of the immense importance of community in our earlier history and evidence that even a strong community cannot save a lost soul.