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1) Bulrusher
Author
Publisher
Samuel French
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Set in 1955, in the redwood country north of San Francisco. Bulrusher is the name given to a baby girl found floating in a basket on the river. As the girl grows up she develops a gift for clairvoyance that makes her feel isolated until a new girl moves into town.
Author
Publisher
Vanguard Press
Pub. Date
[1957]
Language
English
Description
Mame Dennis, a progressive and independent woman of the 1920s, is left to care for her nephew Patrick after his wealthy father dies. Mr. Babcock, Patrick's assigned executor, objects to Mame's unconventional way of living and tries to force her to send Patrick to prep school. As Mame and Patrick grow closer, Mr. Babcock tries to discipline Patrick and threatens to separate the two if Mame does not comply with his wishes.
Author
Series
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
1987.
Language
English
Description
Three plays of courtship and marriage trace the currents of family life back to their source in the struggle of the human spirit.
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...
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