Kent haruf books by published date
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Plainsong Books In Publication Order
- Plainsong (1999)
- Eventide (2004)
- Benediction (2013)
Standalone Novels In Publication Order
- The Tie That Binds (1984)
- Where You Once Belonged (1990)
- Our Souls at Night (2015)
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Kent Haruf Books Overview
Plainsong
‘With , Kent Haruf has conjured up an entire community, and ineluctably immersed the reader in its dramas. He has written a compelling and compassionate novel.’ Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times’Haruf’s unforgettable tale is both emotionally complex and elemental, following, as it so gracefully does, the cycle of life, death, and rebirth.’ BooklistNominated for the National Book Award, Kent Haruf’s , Unabridged on audioA heartstrong story of family and romance, tribulation and tenacity, set on the High Plains east of Denver. In the small town of Holt, Colorado, a high school teacher is confronted with raising his two boys alone after their mother retreats first to the bedroom, then altogether. A teenage girl her father long since disappeared, her mother unwilling to have her in the house is pregnant with nowhere to go. And out in the country, two brothers, elderly bachelors, work the family homestead, the only world theyR
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Fiction – hardcover; Picador; 272 pages; 2013. Review copy courtesy of the publisher.
Kent Haruf’s Benediction is the final volume in the author’s Plainsong Trilogy, which also comprises Plainsong and Eventide, two of my favourite novels from the past couple of years. All three are set in the fictional rural town of Holt, Colorado, and each is just as lovely, heartbreaking and joyful as the one that precedes it.
One last summer
In Benediction, which was recently shortlisted for the inaugural Folio Prize, we meet Dad Lewis, the owner of a local hardware store, who has terminal cancer. His last final summer is spent getting his affairs in order — making sure the business goes on without him, preferably with his somewhat reluctant adult daughter in charge — and catching up with old friends and loved ones, who visit him and his wife, offering prayers and assistance.
But as the story gently unfolds and Dad recalls incidents from his long life, we discover that he won’t be entirely at peace until he finds his son, Frank, who fled the family home as a teenager, more than 30 years ago.
Several other characters dance around the edges of this main narrative: an orphaned girl called Alice, who moves in next door to live with her grandmother;
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Oct 1984
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June 2015
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- The Tie Delay Binds
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- Eventide
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