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Zusatztext Haruf's fiction! though emotionally rich! is delivered in surprisingly naked language; it is delicate and meticulous! but unembellished. The author fades out of view! becoming not the reporter speaking to the camera! but the invisible operator behind the lens. We are left alone in the world of Holt! watching and listening to the small warm hum of daily life! unable to tear ourselves away until the hidden cameraman stops the film and we step out! blinking! into the cold light of day. Informationen zum Autor Kent Haruf is the author of six novels (and, with the photographer Peter Brown, West of Last Chance ). His honours include a Whiting Foundation Writers' Award, the Mountains & Plains Booksellers Award, the Wallace Stegner Award, and a special citation from the PEN/Hemingway Foundation; he was also a finalist for the National Book Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and The New Yorker Book Award. Benediction was shortlisted for the Folio Prize. He died in November 2014, at the age of seventy-one. Klappentext Harold and Raymond McPheron are finally waving goodbye to their beloved Victoria, a young mother with a first chance at an education. Betty and Luther Wallace are struggling to keep their heads above water and their children out of care, and in the same town young friends Dena and DJ find solace away from their own troubled homes. As these stories unfold and entwine, tragedy strikes the McPheron household and life is thrown irrevocably off course. Heart-breaking yet hopeful, Kent Haruf's Eventide is an unflinching depiction of the hardships of small-town life, lit up by astonishing moments of redemption. Vorwort Kent Haruf, award-winning, bestselling author of Plainsong, returns to the high-plains town of Holt, Colorado, with a novel of masterful authority. Zusammenfassung Kent Haruf, award-winning, bestselling author of Plainsong, returns to the high-plains town of Holt, Colorado, with a novel of masterful authority....
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Possesses the haunting appeal of music, the folksy rhythms of an American tale and the lovely, measured grace of an old hymn. Michiko Kakutani New York Times
