Benediction by Kent Haruf
Deals with the ordinary life of Dad Lewis, long-time resident of Holt, Colorado, who is now dying of cancer and has months to live and in those last few months the people who love him gather around him. This novel explores the pain, the compassion and above all the humanity of ordinary people.
Kent Haruf is the author of six novels (and, with the photographer Peter Brown, West of Last Chance). His honours 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. Benediction was shortlisted for the Folio Prize. He died in November 2014, at the age of seventy-one.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781447229728 |
| ISBN 10 | 144722972X |
| Title | Benediction |
| Author | Kent Haruf |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Pan Macmillan |
| Year published | 2013-04-11 |
| Number of pages | 272 |
| Prizes | Short-listed for James Tait Black Prize for Fiction 2014 (UK), Long-listed for The Folio Prize 2014 (UK) |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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