Courtship, Valentine's Day, 1918: Three Plays from the Orphans' Home Cycle

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 an...