Home From the Hill

by William Humphrey

Book Overview

National Book Award Finalist: The mesmerizing saga of a Texas family torn apart by passion and pride. Twelve years after Hannah Hunnicutt was committed to a Dallas asylum, her body is brought home to... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0394429060
• ISBN13: 9780394429069
• Release Date: June 1958
• Publisher: Knopf
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Stunning and beautifully-crafted novel

Humphrey's book is remarkable -- a tour de force on any number of levels. The story is brilliantly evocative of East Texas in the 1950s; the writing is masterful throughout; but more than anything "Home From the Hill" is a beautiful and shattering story about a young man and his father. A book-jacket note compares William Humphrey to William Faulkner; read this novel and you will understand that the comparison is not hyperbole.