Where the Heart Is
- ISBN-10
- 0446787701
- ISBN-13
- 9780446787703
- Series
- Where the Heart Is
- Pages
- 384
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2000-04-01
- Publisher
- Warner Books (NY)
- Author
- Billie Letts
Description
-- "Where the Heart Is" hit #1 on the New York Time bestseller list and was named the 12th Bestselling Book of 1999 by USA Today. There are over 150,000 hardcover copies in print, over 2.1 million copies of the trade paperback edition in print (now in its 26th printing), and nearly 180,000 mass market copies in print to date. -- Twentieth Century Fox owns the rights to the soon-to-be-released feature film starring Natalie Portmen, Ashley Judd, Dylan Bruno, James Frain, Stockard Channing, and Sally Field. The producers are Todd Black (producer of Wrestling Ernest Hemingway) and Randa Haines (director of Children of a Lesser God). -- This novel won the Oklahoma Book Award, Walker Percy Award, and was named one or the Best Books of the Year by the American Library Association. It was serialized in Good Housekeeping and was an Alternate Selection of The Library Guild.
