Description
NATIONAL BESTSELLER - The award-winning, bestselling author of Plainsong returns to the high-plains town of Holt, Colorado, with a novel that unveils the immemorial truths about human beings: their fragility and resilience, their selfishness and goodness, and their ability to find family in one another. - "Storytelling at its best." --Entertainment Weekly
The aging McPheron brothers are learning to live without Victoria Roubideaux, the single mother they took in and who has now left their ranch to start college. A lonely young boy stoically cares for his grandfather while a disabled couple tries to protect their a violent relative. As these lives unfold and intersect, Eventide reveals Kent Haruf as a novelist of masterful authority. "Stunning.... The dry, cold air of Colorado's high plains seems to intensify the light Kent Haruf shines on every character in his masterful novel.... A book of hope, hope as plain and hard-won as Haruf's keenly styled prose." --O, The Oprah Magazine
Author: Kent Haruf
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 05/03/2005
Pages: 300
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.52lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.24w x 0.70d
ISBN13: 9780375725760
ISBN10: 0375725768
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Family Life | General
- Fiction | Small Town & Rural
The aging McPheron brothers are learning to live without Victoria Roubideaux, the single mother they took in and who has now left their ranch to start college. A lonely young boy stoically cares for his grandfather while a disabled couple tries to protect their a violent relative. As these lives unfold and intersect, Eventide reveals Kent Haruf as a novelist of masterful authority. "Stunning.... The dry, cold air of Colorado's high plains seems to intensify the light Kent Haruf shines on every character in his masterful novel.... A book of hope, hope as plain and hard-won as Haruf's keenly styled prose." --O, The Oprah Magazine
Author: Kent Haruf
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 05/03/2005
Pages: 300
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.52lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.24w x 0.70d
ISBN13: 9780375725760
ISBN10: 0375725768
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Family Life | General
- Fiction | Small Town & Rural
About the Author
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 the PEN/Hemingway Foundation; he was also a finalist for the National Book Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and the New Yorker Book Award. He died in November 2014, at the age of seventy-one.