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I suppose it is crazy. I don't know. I don't even care. But that girl needs somebody . . . And you old solitary bastards need somebody too. Somebody or something besides an old red cow to care about and worry over.Set in Kent Haruf's fictional landscape of Holt County, Colorado, Plainsong is a story of simple lives told with extraordinary empathy. Tom Guthrie is struggling to bring up his two young sons alone, and in the same town, school girl...

Set in a fictional Colorado town, Kent Haruf's Where You Once Belonged brings to life small town America and the characters that keep the community together.Heavy-built Jack Burdette is quite literally too big for his boots - and too big, certainly, for the small-town attitudes of Holt, Colorado. But when he fails to make the grade as a college footballer, and takes a job with the local farmers' cooperative, it seems he has finally settled int...

A spare yet eloquent, bittersweet yet inspiring story of a man and a woman who, in advanced age, come together to wrestle with the events of their lives and their hopes for the imminent future. In the familiar setting of Holt, Colorado, home to all of Kent Haruf's inimitable fiction, Addie Moore pays an unexpected visit to a neighbor, Louis Waters. Her husband died years ago, as did his wife, and in such a small town they naturally have known ...

In Where You Once Belonged, the bestselling and award-winning novelist of Eventide, Kent Haruf tells of a small-town hero who is dealt an enviable hand--and cheats with all of the cards. Deftly plotted, defiantly honest, Where You Once Belonged sings the song of a wounded prairie community in a narrative with the earmarks of a modern American classic. In prose as lean and supple as a spring switch, Haruf describes a high school football star w...

National Book Award FinalistA heartstrong story of family and romance, tribulation and tenacity, set on the High Plains east of Denver.In the small town of Holt, Colorado, a high school teacher is confronted with raising his two boys alone after their mother retreats first to the bedroom, then altogether. A teenage girl-her father long since disappeared, her mother unwilling to have her in the house-is pregnant, alone herself, with nowhere to ...

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 myth and reality of the High Plains, from the author of Detroit DisassembledIn Dirt Meridian, Andrew Moore takes to the air to document the High Plains of North Dakota, South Dakota and Nebraska in a series of stunning, large-format photographs. The "meridian" of the title refers to the 100th meridian, the longitude that neatly bisects the US and has long been considered the dividing line between the East and West. Much of the meridian tra...

Nosotros en la noche es una joya escondida: una historia concisa, conmovedora, agridulce pero a la vez inspiradora, con el revelador sentido del humor que solo poseen aquellos que han llegado a una edad en la que poco importa lo que puedan decir los demás.Louis Waters y Addie Moore llevan gran parte de su vida siendo vecinos en la apacible localidad de Holt, en Colorado. Ambos enviudaron hace años y acaban de franquear las puertas de la vejez,...

Con "Canto della pianura" si torna a Holt, dove Tom Guthrie insegna storia al liceo e da solo si occupa dei due figli piccoli, mentre la moglie passa le sue giornate al buio, chiusa in una stanza. Intanto Victoria Roubideaux a sedici anni scopre di essere incinta. Quando la madre la caccia di casa, la ragazza chiede aiuto a un'insegnante della scuola, Maggie Jones, e la sua storia si lega a quella dei vecchi fratelli McPheron, che da sempre vi...

Contiene i tre capitoli della Trilogia della pianura, con un messaggio di Cathy Haruf, Holt immaginata da Franco Matticchio e la mappa della contea ricostruita da Marco Denti.

Siamo a Holt, Colorado. La vita dei vecchi fratelli Harold e Raymond McPheron è cambiata da quando hanno accolto alla fattoria Victoria Roubideaux e la piccola Katie, ma ora la ragazza ha deciso di andare all'università e di trasferirsi a Fort Collins. A poca distanza dai McPheron vive DJ, un ragazzino orfano che si prende cura del nonno. DJ fa amicizia con Dena, la figlia della vicina, e la sua storia si lega a quella di Joy Rae e del fratell...