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References to this work on external resources. Wikipedia in EnglishNone In 1917, when Horton Foote was one year old, his family moved into a house on his grandparents' property in Wharton, Texas. Seventy years later, he returned to that house where he still lives. And while the years between took this acclaimed writer many literal & figurative miles, he remained forever tied to his Texas roots - roots that he explores in Farewell. The results reveals memories of a complex Southern family full of secrets, an aspiring young actor shaped by the storytellers around him, a world changing at a frenetic pace. Foote's observations of his own lifetime would have been enough. Here is a man who remembers a time in which black & white children played together until school age, when segregation forced them apart. But by drawing on the experiences of those around him, he transforms his memoir into some-thing else entirely: a glimpse into history, & a heartfelt tribute to the passions, ideals, & complexities of a small-town American life in the early part of this century. It is also a testimony to the power of storytelling. There is a frank simplicity in Foote's telling that makes Farewell a profoundly moving & illuminating reading experience, one that will long be remembered. No library descriptions found. ▼LibraryThing members' description
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- For more than five decades, Horton Foote, 'the Chekhov of the small town,' has chronicled with compassion and acuity 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 his own story and the stories of the real people who have inspired his characters. He was the first child of his generation of Footes, born into an extended family of aunts, great-aunts, grandparents and dozens of cousins once removed, all of whom discovered that even as a young boy Foote was an avid listener with an uncanny ability to extract a story -- including those deemed unfit for children. Foote's memories are of a time when going down to meet the train was an event whether or not you knew someone on it, when black and white children played together until segregation forced them apart at school-age. 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, marital 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. In all of Foote's writing, he reveals the immense drama behind quiet lives, or as Frank Rich has said, 'the unbearable turbulence beneath a tranquil surface.' Farewell is as deeply moving as the best of Foote's writing for film and theater, and a gorgeous testimony to his own faith in the human spirit.
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- 1999
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- 287 Pages
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- 9780684863405
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- Simon & Schuster
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- 02/04/14
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- English
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'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. 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. Farewell A Memoir Of A Texas Childhood by Horton Foote available in Trade Paperback on Powells.com, also read synopsis and reviews. For more than five decades, Horton Foote, 'the Chekhov of the small town,' has chronicled the.
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