Footprints

Hearon, Shelby

ISBN 10: 0679446419 / ISBN 13: 9780679446415

Published by Knopf. New York., 1996

About this Item

NF/NF. First edition, first printing. Signed by author on title page. 191 pp. Seller Inventory # 14569

Bibliographic Details

Title: Footprints

Publisher: Knopf. New York.

Publication Date: 1996

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: Fine

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

Edition: 1st Edition

About this title

Synopsis:

The sudden and tragic death of a twenty-two-year-old woman exposes the previously hidden conflicts of her parents' marriage as Nan and Douglas Mayhall come face to face with an elderly southern preacher whose life has been saved by the gift of their daughter's heart.

About the Author:

Shelby Hearon was born in Marion, Kentucky, lived for many years in Texas, and now divides her time between Westchester County, New York and Burlington, Vermont. She is the author of fourteen novels, including Life Estates and Owning Jolene, which won an American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters Literature Award and is being made into a film. She has received National Endowment for the Arts and John Simon Guggenheim Fiction Fellowships, an Ingram Merrill grant, and has twice won the Texas Institute of Letters fiction award. She has taught in numerous writing programs, including the University of Houston, the University of California at Irvine, the University of Illinois at Chicago, Colgate University and the University of Miami. Married to philosopher Billy Joe Lucas, she is the mother of a gr