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Book SynopsisKent Haruf's honours include a Whiting Foundation Award and a special citation from the PEN/Hemingway Foundation.
Plainsong won the Mountains & Plains Booksellers Award and was a finalist for the National Book Award, the L
os Angeles Times Book Prize, and the
New Yorker Book Award. Haruf's 2013 novel,
Benediction, was shortlisted for the Folio prize. He died in 2014 at the age of seventy-one.
Trade ReviewHaruf ’s heroes are small people weighed down with big hearts . . .He manages to find magic in the minutiae of ordinary lives. -- Mariella Frostrup on
Plainsong * Mail on Sunday *
Haruf ’s deceptively artless prose and unsentimental tales are driven by individuals, not incidents, as they choose between decency and cowardice, degradation and rectitude. -- Praise for
The Tie That Binds * Times Literary Supplement *
Haruf is one of the finest novelists at work today. * Time Out *
