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.
"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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