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Benediction

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Einband grossBenediction
ISBN/GTIN
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Produkt

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.
Details
ISBN/GTIN978-1-4472-2753-3
ProduktartBuch
EinbandartKartonierter Einband
FormatB-Format Paperback (UK)
ProduktionslandVereinigtes Königreich
Erscheinungsjahr2014
Erscheinungsdatum27.02.2014
ReihePlainsong
Seiten272 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
MasseBreite 129 mm, Höhe 197 mm, Dicke 19 mm
Gewicht186 g
Verlagsartikel-Nr.30344
BZ-Nr.15270669

Inhalt/Kritik

Vorwort
Following the astonishing Plainsong and Eventide, this is Kent Haruf's third novel set in the imaginary landscape of Holt, Colorado.mehr
Kritik
'Haruf is the master of what one of his characters calls "the precious ordinary"... With understated language and startling emotional insight, he makes you feel awe at even the most basic of human gestures.' Ben Goldstein, Esquire 'Reverberant... From the terroir and populace of his native American West, the author of Plainsong and Eventide again draws a story elegant in its simple telling and remarkable in its authentic capture of universal human emotions.' Brad Hooper, Booklist 'Haruf is maguslike in his gifts... to illuminate the inevitable ways in which tributary lives meander toward confluence... Perhaps not since Hemingway has an American author triggered such reader empathy with so little reliance on the subjectivity of his characters... [This] is a modestly wrought wonder from one of our finest living writers.' Bruce Machart, The Houston Chronicle 'His finest-tuned tale yet... There is a deep, satisfying music to this book, as Haruf weaves between such a large cast of characters in so small a space... Strangely, wonderfully, the moment of a man's passing can be a blessing in the way it brings people together. Benediction recreates this powerful moment so gracefully it is easy to forget that, like [the town of] Holt, it is a world created by one man.' John Freeman, The Boston Globe 'As Haruf's precise details accrue, a reader gains perspective: This is the story of a man's life, and the town where he spent it, and the people who try to ease its end... His sentences have the elegance of Hemingway's early work [and his] determined realism, which admits that not all of our past actions or the reasons behind them are knowable, even to ourselves, is one of the book's satisfactions.' John Reimringer, The Minneapolis Star-Tribune 'Grace and restraint are abiding virtues in Haruf's fiction, and they resume their place of privilege in his new work... For readers looking for the rewards of an intimate, meditative story, it is indeed a blessing.' Karen R. Long, The Cleveland Plain Dealer 'We've waited a long time for an invitation back to Holt, home to Kent Haruf's novels... He may be the most muted master in American fiction [and] Benediction seems designed to catch the sound of those fleeting good moments [with] scenes Hemingway might have written had he survived.' Ron Charles, Washington Post 'Benediction suggests there's no end to the stories Haruf can tell about Holt or to the tough, gorgeous language he can summon in the process.' New York Times 'Truly showcases the novel as an art form.' Psychologies 'A brilliant end to his brilliant Plainsong trilogy.' Lucy Mangan, Stylist 'Kent Haruf describes Dad Lewis's last summer with beautiful simplicity ... Haruf's existing fans have been waiting patiently for Benediction for years. They won't be surprised by how fine this book is, but newcomers to his writing will be reaching for his previous novels to catch up.' Sunday Expressmehr

Autor

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 of seventy-one.
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