Tie That Binds
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A01=Kent Haruf
American classic
American West
Author_Kent Haruf
Category=FBA
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family duty
family life
grief
hardship
Holt
literary
loneliness
loss
mental illness
murder
prairie
rural America
sacrifice
Product details
- ISBN 9780330490450
- Weight: 184g
- Dimensions: 130 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 07 Jun 2002
- Publisher: Pan Macmillan
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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In The Tie That Binds, his critically acclaimed first novel, Kent Haruf delivers the sweeping tale of eighty-year-old Edith Goodnough. Narrated by her neighbour, Edith's tragedies unfold: a tough childhood, a mother's death, a violence that leaves a father dependent on his children, forever enraged. She is a woman who sacrifices everything in the name of family - until she is forced to reclaim her freedom in one dramatic and unexpected gesture.
Breathtaking and truthful, The Tie That Binds is a powerful tribute to the demands of rural life, and to the tenacity of the human spirit.
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. Haruf's 2013 novel, Benediction, was shortlisted for the Folio prize. He died in 2014 at the age of seventy-one.
