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Synopsis
The citizens of Holt, Colorado, return in Kent Haruf's follow-up to his bestselling 1999 novel, PLAINSONG. His characters' problems are myriad: poverty, ignorance, schoolyard bullies, dying elders. But in American small towns, people help each other out, tangling their lives together without hesitation in the process--and Haruf's moving and elegiac fiction embodies that truth. As spring slowly comes to Holt, the McPheron brothers, Harold and Raymond--who are Haruf's focus this time--and their neighbors find that they have been put to the test and survived.
| Details | | Series: | Vintage Contemporaries Series |
| Size | | Length: | 299 pages | | Height: | 8.0 in | | Width: | 5.3 in | | Thickness: | 0.8 in | | Weight: | 8.8 oz |
Publisher's Notes
First Line: "They came up from the horse barn in the slanted light of early morning. The McPheron brothers, Harold and Raymond. Old men approaching an old house at the end of summer."
Industry Reviews
"Melancholy truths set to gorgeous melody."
Kirkus (04/15/2004)
"[W]hile there is much sadness and hardship in this portrait of a community, Haruf's sympathy for his characters, no matter how flawed they are, make this an uncommonly rich novel."
Publishers Weekly (04/19/2004)
"It's rare that such slow, deliberate prose is this highly charged, but Haruf's writing draws power from his sense of character--its limitations and its possibilities--and how it propels action."
New Yorker (05/31/2004)
"Mr. Haruf makes us care about these plain-spoken, small town folks without ever resorting to sentimentality or clichés. Instead, he uses their own language -- simple, laconic and uninflected with irony or contemporary slang--to capture the mood and mores of the town....His story, while lacking the fierce originality of PLAINSONG, possesses the haunting appeal of music, the folksy rhythms of an American ballad and the lovely, measured grace of an old hymn."
New York Times - Michiko Kakutani (05/25/2004)
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