HARRISON, TEXAS: eight television plays by FOOTE, Horton

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HARRISON, TEXAS: eight television plays

Edition: First printing

New York: Harcourt Brace, 1956. Cloth & boards.Light yellowing to page edges, else fine. Price-clipped jacket has a fingernail-size chip to upper inner corner of rear panel, spine lightly yellowed, VG otherwise. Contains "A Young Lady of Property," "John Turner Davis," "The Tears of My Sister," "The Death of the Old Man," "Expectant Relations," "The Midnight Caller," "The Dancers," and "The Trip to Bountiful." An attractive copy of Foote's first book, published simultaneously with his novel THE CHASE. Originally broadcast in 1953 and 1954, the teleplay of "A Trip to Bountiful" featured Lillian Gish and Eva Marie Saint. It was later adapted for the stage; Foote awrote the screenplay for the 1985 film version which featured Geraldine Page, which won her an Academy Award for Best Actress, and Foote a nomination for his screenplay. Horton Foote, from Wharton, TX, was one of the leading American screenwriters for 1950s TV as well as for the silver screen (To Kill a Mockingbird, Tender Mercies, Of Mice and Men, Baby the Rain Must Fall,

Book ID: 46726
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