Benediction
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781611738063 (1611738067)
Publish date: June 1st 2013
Publisher: Center Point
Pages no: 343
Edition language: English
Series: Plainsong
Kent Haruf takes his time. His first novel, The Ties That Bind, was published in 1984, winning a Whiting Foundation Award and a Hemingway Foundation/PEN citation. His second novel, Where You Once Belonged was published in 1990. Plainsong, which became a best-seller and was a National Book Award fin...
In typical Haruf fashion, this book is stocked with well rendered characters. However, for whatever reason I did not get pulled in the way I did with the people that filled the pages of Plainsong and Eventide. The writing is great and the pacing is tight but at the end I simply turned the page and...
Review to come.
http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/532766703
Benediction is a pensive novel about the dailiness of life in a small town, the neighborly kindnesses as well as the regrets and missed chances that haunt its residents. At times it's more a lament than a benediction. "Dad" Lewis is the central character. He only has a few weeks left to live. Knowi...
12 years ago
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