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Benediction - Hardcover By Haruf, Kent - ACCEPTABLE
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- Brand
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- ISBN
- 9780307959881
- Book Title
- Benediction
- Item Length
- 9.5in
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Publication Year
- 2013
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1in
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- Family Life, Religious, Literary
- Item Width
- 6.5in
- Item Weight
- 18.3 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 272 Pages
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A Shelf Awareness Best Book of the Year From the beloved and best-selling author of Plainsong and Eventide comes a story of life and death, and the ties that bind, once again set out on the High Plains in Holt, Colorado. When Dad Lewis is diagnosed with terminal cancer, he and his wife, Mary, must work together to make his final days as comfortable as possible. Their daughter, Lorraine, hastens back from Denver to help look after him; her devotion softens the bitter absence of their estranged son, Frank, but this cannot be willed away and remains a palpable presence for all three of them. Next door, a young girl named Alice moves in with her grandmother and contends with the painful memories that Dad's condition stirs up of her own mother's death. Meanwhile, the town's newly arrived preacher attempts to mend his strained relationships with his wife and teenaged son, a task that proves all the more challenging when he faces the disdain of his congregation after offering more than they are accustomed to getting on a Sunday morning. And throughout, an elderly widow and her middle-aged daughter do everything they can to ease the pain of their friends and neighbors. Despite the travails that each of these families faces, together they form bonds strong enough to carry them through the most difficult of times. Bracing, sad and deeply illuminating, Benediction captures the fullness of life by representing every stage of it, including its extinction, as well as the hopes and dreams that sustain us along the way. Here Kent Haruf gives us his most indelible portrait yet of this small town and reveals, with grace and insight, the compassion, the suffering and, above all, the humanity of its inhabitants.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0307959880
ISBN-13
9780307959881
eBay Product ID (ePID)
117240381
Product Key Features
Book Title
Benediction
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Family Life, Religious, Literary
Publication Year
2013
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
272 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.5in
Item Height
1in
Item Width
6.5in
Item Weight
18.3 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Ps3558.A716b46 2013
Reviews
"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 "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 "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 "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 "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 "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 "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, "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, "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 "A quiet and profound statement about endings, about change and death and endurance, and about the courage it takes to finally let go. . . . What''s remarkable is Haruf''s ability, once again, to square quotidian events with what it means to be alive and bound in ordinary pleasure with ordinary people [with] a matter-of-fact tone, with spare declarative sentences and plain-speak among the characters that is, in its bare-bones clarity, often heartbreakingly authentic." -Debra Gwartney, The Oregonian "A lovely book, surprisingly rich in character and event without any sense of being crowded. . . . Haruf is a master in summing up the drama that already exists in life, if you just pay attention." -Harper Barnes, St. Louis Post-Dispatch "Splendid. . . . As the expertly crafted structure of Benediction emerges, it becomes clear that [Haruf''s many] characters trace the arc of a life. . . as we join [a good but flawed man] in his deepening appreciation for those around him, while counting down the remaining hours, in his life and our own." -Mike Fischer, Portland Press Herald " 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." -Paul Elie, The New York Times Book Review "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 "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 "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 "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 "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 "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
Copyright Date
2013
Target Audience
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Lccn
2012-028744
Dewey Decimal
813/.54
Dewey Edition
23
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