KlappentextShortlisted for the Folio Prize.
One long last summer for Dad Lewis in his beloved town, Holt, Colorado. As old friends pass in and out to voice their farewells and good wishes, Dad's wife and daughter work to make his final days as comfortable as possible, knowing all is tainted by the heart-break of an absent son. Next door, a little girl with a troubled past moves in with her grandmother, and down town another new arrival, the Reverend Rob Lyle, attempts to mend strained relationships of his own.
Utterly beautiful, and devastating yet affirming, Kent Haruf's Benediction explores the pain, the compassion and the humanity of ordinary people.
ZusatztextThere's something of the tone of Joyce's Dubliners in Haruf's simply-told tale of elderly Dad Lewis, diagnosed with cancer and living out his last summer. An elegiac tone, of someone who has already gone, gives Haruf's prose its extraordinary dignity and humanity.
ISBN/GTIN978-1-4472-2753-3
ProduktartBuch
EinbandartKartonierter Einband
FormatB-Format Paperback (UK)
ProduktionslandVereinigtes Königreich
Erscheinungsjahr2014
Erscheinungsdatum27.02.2014
Seiten272 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
MasseBreite 129 mm, Höhe 197 mm, Dicke 19 mm
Gewicht186 g
Verlagsartikel-Nr.30344
BZ-Nr.15270669