It feels a bit like something has been planted in my mind that is leading me through rooms there of which I’d hitherto been unaware. And Mr Haruf’s book is doing precisely that. I go along with that, but with what I’ve learned over the years I would add the phrase, “to provoke thought”. I was once told (by a teacher when I was in my early teens) that one writes to inform or to entertain. It’s a good story, but it was only after I’d finished it and started reflecting upon what I’d read that I began to realise just what an impact it had had one me. This is one of the loveliest and most moving books I’ve read.
KENT OUR SOULS AT NIGHT BOOK FREE
He died of interstitial lung disease.īio from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. On November 30, 2014, Haruf died at his home in Salida, Colorado at the age of 71. Library Journal described the writing as ""honest storytelling that is compelling and rings true."" Jonathan Miles saw it as a ""repeat performance"" and ""too goodhearted."" Verlyn Klinkenborg called it ""a novel so foursquare, so delicate and lovely, that it has the power to exalt the reader."" Plainsong won the Mountains & Plains Booksellers Award and the Maria Thomas Award in Fiction and was a finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction.Įventide, a sequel to Plainsong, was published in 2004. Plainsong was published in 1999 and became a U.S. A number of his short stories have appeared in literary magazines. Where You Once Belonged followed in 1990. His first novel, The Tie That Binds (1984), received a Whiting Award and a special Hemingway Foundation/PEN citation. Holt is based on Yuma, Colorado, one of Haruf's residences in the early 1980s. He had three daughters from his first marriage.Īll of Haruf's novels take place in the fictional town of Holt, in eastern Colorado. He lived with his wife, Cathy, in Salida, Colorado until his death in 2014. He graduated with a BA from Nebraska Wesleyan University in 1965, where he would later teach, and earned an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa in 1973.īefore becoming a writer, Haruf worked in a variety of places, including a chicken farm in Colorado, a construction site in Wyoming, a rehabilitation hospital in Denver, a hospital in Phoenix, a presidential library in Iowa, an alternative high school in Wisconsin, as an English teacher with the Peace Corps in Turkey, and colleges in Nebraska and Illinois. Haruf was born in Pueblo, Colorado, the son of a Methodist minister.
0 kommentar(er)
