Eventide

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
Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Kent Haruf
Published: 05/03/2005
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 9780375725760
Pages: 300
Weight: 0.52lbs
Size: 0.70″ H x 8.10″ L x 5.24″ W

Award: 2005 Colorado Book Award Winner – Novel

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.