Where You Once Belonged

From the author of Plainsong, Eventide and Benediction.

Zusatztext Haruf is one of the finest novelists at work today. Informationen zum Autor Kent Haruf's honours include a Whiting Foundation Award and a special citation from the PEN/Hemingway Foundation. Plainsong won the Mountains & Plains Booksellers Award and was a finalist for the National Book Award, the L os Angeles Times Book Prize, and the New Yorker Book Award. Haruf's 2013 novel, Benediction , was shortlisted for the Folio prize. He died in 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....

Haruf is one of the finest novelists at work today.

Vorwort
From the author of Plainsong, Eventide and Benediction.

Autorentext

Kent Haruf's honours include a Whiting Foundation Award and a special citation from the PEN/Hemingway Foundation. Plainsong won the Mountains & Plains Booksellers Award and was a finalist for the National Book Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and the New Yorker Book Award. Haruf's 2013 novel, Benediction, was shortlisted for the Folio prize. He died in 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.

Zusammenfassung
From the author of Plainsong, Eventide and Benediction.