Where You Once Belonged

ISBN-13: 9781447250685 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 192 str.

Kent Haruf

Opis

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.

Recenzje

Haruf 's heroes are small people weighed down with big hearts . . .He manages to find magic in the minutiae of ordinary lives. Mariella Frostrup on Plainsong Mail on Sunday

O autorze

Kent Haruf is the author of six novels (and, with the photographer Peter Brown, West of Last Chance). His honours include a Whiting Foundation Writers' Award, the Mountains & Plains Booksellers Award, the Wallace Stegner Award, and a special citation from the PEN/Hemingway Foundation; he was also 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 of seventy-one.