Collected Plays, Vol. 2

by Horton Foote

"Horton Foote is an artist of spiritual transcendence. His chracters are the conflicts of the soul struggling for inner peace. At the center of his plays is loneliness, loss, grief, fear, courage and love: the existential state of our common humanity." - Robert Ellermann, from the Introduction

Genres: Fiction

216 pages, Paperback

First published July 1, 1996

About the author

Albert Horton Foote, Jr. was an American playwright and screenwriter, perhaps best known for his Academy Award-winning screenplays for the 1962 film To Kill a Mockingbird and the 1983 film Tender Mercies, and his notable live television dramas during the Golden Age of Television. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1995 for his play The Young Man From Atlanta.

Reviews

[Lisa Rogers · Rating 5 out of 5]

It is such a thrill that these plays take place in Texas, my home state, back in the days when people were still very tied to the places in which they grew up and want news of people they once knew. Delightful.

[Nancy Cook-senn · Rating 3 out of 5]

The Trip to Bountiful, The Chase, The Traveling Lady, and The Roads to Home -- delineating need, longing and despair in small Texas towns.