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The Tie That Binds

By Kent Haruf

By Kent Haruf

By Kent Haruf

By Kent Haruf

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Mar 21, 2000 | ISBN 9780375724381

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May 12, 2010 | ISBN 9780307560643

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    About The Tie That Binds

    From the bestselling author of Eventide, The Tie That Binds is a powerfully eloquent tribute to the arduous demands of rural America, and of the tenacity of the human spirit.

    Colorado, January 1977. Eighty-year-old Edith Goodnough lies in a hospital bed, IV taped to the back of her hand, police officer at her door. She is charged with murder. The clues: a sack of chicken feed slit with a knife, a milky-eyed dog tied outdoors one cold afternoon. The motives: the brutal business of farming and a family code of ethics as unforgiving as the winter prairie itself. Here, Kent Haruf delivers the sweeping tale of a woman of the American High Plains, as told by her neighbor, Sanders Roscoe. As Roscoe shares what he knows, Edith’s tragedies unfold: a childhood of pre-dawn chores, a mother’s death, a violence that leaves a father dependent on his children, forever enraged. Here is the story of a woman who sacrifices her happiness in the name of family–and then, in one gesture, reclaims her freedom.

    About The Tie That Binds

    From the bestselling author of Eventide, The Tie That Binds is a powerfully eloquent tribute to the arduous demands of rural America, and of the tenacity of the human spirit.

    Colorado, January 1977. Eighty-year-old Edith Goodnough lies in a hospital bed, IV taped to the back of her hand, police officer at her door. She is charged with murder. The clues: a sack of chicken feed slit with a knife, a milky-eyed dog tied outdoors one cold afternoon. The motives: the brutal business of farming and a family code of ethics as unforgiving as the winter prairie itself. Here, Kent Haruf delivers the sweeping tale of a woman of the American High Plains, as told by her neighbor, Sanders Roscoe. As Roscoe shares what he knows, Edith’s tragedies unfold: a childhood of pre-dawn chores, a mother’s death, a violence that leaves a father dependent on his children, forever enraged. Here is the story of a woman who sacrifices her happiness in the name of family–and then, in one gesture, reclaims her freedom.

    Also by Kent Haruf

    The Tie That Binds
    Our Souls at Night
    Benediction
    Eventide
    Plainsong
    See all books by Kent Haruf

    Also by Kent Haruf

    The Tie That Binds
    Our Souls at Night
    Benediction
    Eventide
    Plainsong
    See all books by Kent Haruf

    About Kent Haruf

    Kent Haruf is the author of five previous novels (and, with the photographer Peter Brown, West of Last Chance). His honors include a Whiting Foundation Writers’ Award, the Mountains & Plains Booksellers Award, the Wallace Stegner Award, and a special citation from… More about Kent Haruf

    About Kent Haruf

    Kent Haruf is the author of five previous novels (and, with the photographer Peter Brown, West of Last Chance). His honors include a Whiting Foundation Writers’ Award, the Mountains & Plains Booksellers Award, the Wallace Stegner Award, and a special citation from… More about Kent Haruf

    Product Details

    Category: Literary Fiction

    Paperback | $16.00
    Published by Vintage
    Mar 21, 2000 | 256 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780375724381

    Category: Literary Fiction

    Ebook | $5.99
    Published by Vintage
    May 12, 2010 | 256 Pages | ISBN 9780307560643

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    Praise

    "An impressive, expertly crafted work of sensitivity and detail. . . . Powerful."  –Los Angeles Times Book Review

    "[A] fine first novel that dramatically and accurately explores the lives of people who work the land in the stark American Middle West."  –The New York Times Book Review

    "Kent Haruf writes so wonderfully. . . . His characters live, and the voice of his narrator reverberates after the last page: humorous, ironic, loving."  –The Christian Science Monitor

    "Haruf’s gifts as a writer go beyond choreography. He has caught his prairie people with the skill of Wright Morris, the prairie itself with the sweeping eye of Willa Cather. . . . [I]t’s nearly impossible to believe this is his first novel."  –Rocky Mountain News

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