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Where You Once Belonged

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Zusatztext Haruf is one of the finest novelists at work today. 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 Set in a fictional Colorado town, Kent Haruf's Where You Once Belonged brings to life small town America and the characters that keep the community together. Heavy-built Jack Burdette is quite literally too big for his boots - and too big, certainly, for the small-town attitudes of Holt, Colorado. But when he fails to make the grade as a college footballer, and takes a job with the local farmers' cooperative, it seems he has finally settled into the rhythm and routine of everyday life. Outward appearances can be deceptive, however, as Jack proves: returning from a weekend conference with a new wife in tow, then leaving her behind and skipping town with a bundle of other folks' money. Nearly a decade later, no one has forgiven or forgotten, and when Jack reappears, resentment runs high. Once again though, it is Jack whose presence - even more than his eight-year absence - proves the most devastating. 'Haruf 's heroes are small people weighed down with big hearts ...He manages to find magic in the minutiae of ordinary lives' Mariella Frostrup, Mail on Sunday, on Plainsong 'Haruf 's deceptively artless prose and unsentimental tales are driven by individuals, not incidents, as they choose between decency and cowardice, degradation and rectitude' Times Literary Supplement on The Tie That Binds 'Haruf is one of the finest novelists at work today' Time Out From the author of Plainsong, Eventide and Benediction . Zusammenfassung From the author of Plainsong, Eventide and Benediction....

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Haruf 's heroes are small people weighed down with big hearts . . .He manages to find magic in the minutiae of ordinary lives. Mariella Frostrup on Plainsong Mail on Sunday

Product details

Authors Kent Haruf, Haruf Kent
Publisher Picador Uk
 
Languages English
Age Recommendation from age 18
Product format Paperback
Released 23.05.2013
 
EAN 9781447250685
ISBN 978-1-4472-5068-5
No. of pages 200
Dimensions 130 mm x 198 mm x 12 mm
Subjects Fiction > Narrative literature
Fiction > Narrative literature > Contemporary literature (from 1945)

Colorado, FICTION / Family Life / General, FICTION / Small Town & Rural, Fiction: general and literary

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