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Eventide
Kent Haruf
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Description for Eventide
Paperback. Following the astonishing Plainsong, Eventide is Haruf's second novel set in his imaginary landscape of Holt, Colorado. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 21. Weight in Grams: 244.
Following the astonishing Plainsong, Eventide is Kent Haruf's second novel set in his imaginary landscape of Holt, Colorado.
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, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Pan Macmillan
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781447240457
SKU
V9781447240457
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-50
About Kent Haruf
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. Benediction was shortlisted for the Folio Prize. He died in November 2014, at the age ... Read more
Reviews for Eventide
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
Wonderful . . . peopled with individuals whose ordinary lives are invested with epic quality and truth.
Niall Williams
Sunday Times
This is a novel that succeeds ... Read more
Michiko Kakutani
New York Times
Wonderful . . . peopled with individuals whose ordinary lives are invested with epic quality and truth.
Niall Williams
Sunday Times
This is a novel that succeeds ... Read more