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Courtship ; Valentine's Day ; 1918 - Three Plays from "the Orphans' Home Cycle" (Paperback, Reissue)
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Courtship ; Valentine's Day ; 1918 - Three Plays from "the Orphans' Home Cycle" (Paperback, Reissue)
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List price R364
Loot Price R340
Discovery Miles 3 400
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This is the central volume in Horton Foote's remarkable nine-play
Orphans' Home Cycle, in which the author chronicles the evolution
of a family--the strengths that bind its members together and the
strains that force them apart--and the cataclysmic changes in
Southern society over twenty-six turbulent years. Beginning in 1902
with the death of the protagonist's father--a loss that sends
twelve-year-old Horace Robedaux on an odyssey to the darkest
corners of the heart--and ending in 1928 with another momentous
funeral, Foote traces a lineage of loss and regeneration.
Caught in a conflict as old as society itself, Elizabeth Vaughn is
at once drawn and propelled toward Horace Robedaux. The proud and
wealthy Vaughns frown on their daughter's love for the orphaned
clothing salesman, but the revolving mirrors of time turn and turn
about, and both the Vaughns and the newly married Robedauxs are
tested not only by their pride but also by the shadows of death and
disease, and the more subtle pressures of their family's and their
society's future.
The Orphans' Home Cycle (a title based on a poem by Marianne Moore)
is a unique series of plays spanning thirty years in the lives of
its central characters. Moving and complete as individual plays,
the entire cycle is a panoramic and penetrating picture of American
society during a crucial period in our history.
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