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Then Came the Evening
Brian Hart
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Description for Then Came the Evening
Paperback. An unflinching and beautiful debut about belonging and betrayal, family and forgiveness, from a writer earning comparisons to Cormac McCarthy Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 18. Weight in Grams: 198. 272 pages. Bandy Dorner, home from Vietnam, awakes with his car mired in a canal, his cabin reduced to ashes, and his pregnant wife preparing to leave town with her lover. Within moments, a cop lies bleeding on the road. Eighteen years later, Bandy is released from prison. His parents are gone, but on the family ranch, Bandy faces a different reunion. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 197 x 129 x 18. Weight: 198.
An unflinching and beautiful debut about belonging and betrayal, family and forgiveness _____________________ ‘Told with a stark narrative voice that reflects the harsh unforgiving subject, the comparisons to Cormac McCarthy are already coming thick and fast' - GQ ‘A startling evocation of a wild place in which every man and woman struggle on in their own private Idaho' - Daily Telegraph _____________________ Bandy Dorner, home from Vietnam, awakes with his car mired in a canal, his cabin reduced to ashes, and his pregnant wife preparing to leave town with her lover. Within moments, a cop lies bleeding ... Read more
An unflinching and beautiful debut about belonging and betrayal, family and forgiveness _____________________ ‘Told with a stark narrative voice that reflects the harsh unforgiving subject, the comparisons to Cormac McCarthy are already coming thick and fast' - GQ ‘A startling evocation of a wild place in which every man and woman struggle on in their own private Idaho' - Daily Telegraph _____________________ Bandy Dorner, home from Vietnam, awakes with his car mired in a canal, his cabin reduced to ashes, and his pregnant wife preparing to leave town with her lover. Within moments, a cop lies bleeding ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781408809662
SKU
V9781408809662
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Ref
99-50
About Brian Hart
Brian Hart was born in Idaho. He spent years working as a janitor, carpenter, welder, and commercial fisherman before earning his M.F.A. from the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas at Austin. He was the winner of the 2005 Keene Prize, the largest student prize for literature at the University of Texas. Then Came the Evening is ... Read more
Reviews for Then Came the Evening
‘Brian Hart's Then Came the Evening shows the hidden America, a world of remote holdings, long memories, fierce yearnings, and violent strivings. He dramatises this world with an immense care and tenderness. There is a deep feeling in the book for the gnarled landscape itself, its stark beauty, but even greater emotion surrounds the characters that inhabit it. Their efforts ... Read more