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Benediction by Kent Haruf
$29.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
In Benediction, Haruf writes of the precious ordinary. In this case it's the ordinary life of Dad Lewis, long-time resident of Holt, Colorado, who is now dying of cancer. He has months to live and in those last few months the people who love him gather around him. As the novel unfolds we are introduced ...Show more
Benediction (Plainsong #3) by Kent Haruf
$24.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Plainsong
One long last summer for Dad Lewis in his beloved town, Holt, Colorado. As old friends pass in and out to voice their farewells and good wishes, Dad's wife and daughter work to make his final days as comfortable as possible, knowing all is tainted by the heart-break of an absent son. Next door, a little ...Show more
Eventide (Plainsong #2) by Kent Haruf
$24.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Plainsong Ser.
Harold and Raymond McPheron are finally waving goodbye to their beloved Victoria, a young mother with a first chance at an education. Betty and Luther Wallace are struggling to keep their heads above water and their children out of care, and in the same town young friends Dena and DJ find solace away fr ...Show more
Our Souls at Night by Kent Haruf
$24.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Netflix film
From the Folio Prize-shortlisted author of Plainsong, Eventide and Benediction, a stunning novel about finding happiness.SOON TO BE A MOTION PICTURE"Absolutely beautiful" The Times"Gripping and tender" Publishers WeeklyThis is a love story. A story about growing old with grace.Addie Moore and Louis Wate ...Show more
Our Souls at Night by Kent Haruf
$32.99 AUD
Category: New Fiction
'Absolutely beautiful' The Times 'Luminous' Ursula K Le Guin, Guardian 'I loved Our Souls at Night' David Nicholls Addie Moore's husband died years ago, so did Louis Waters' wife, and, as neighbours in Holt, Colorado they have naturally long been aware of each other. With their children now far away bot ...Show more
Our Souls at Night by Kent Haruf
$24.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: General Adult
A Best Book of the Year The Boston Globe, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and The Denver Post 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 ...Show more
Our Souls at Night by Kent Haruf
$39.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
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 ...Show more
Plainsong by Kent Haruf
$29.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
" Ambitious, but never seeming so, Kent Haruf reveals a whole community as he interweaves the stories of a pregnant high school girl, a lonely teacher, a pair of boys abandoned by their mother, and a couple of crusty bachelor farmers. From simple elements, Haruf achieves a novel of wisdom and grace--a n ...Show more
Plainsong: Picador Classic by Kent Haruf; Peter Carey (Introduction by)
$24.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Plainsong Ser.
With an introduction by Peter CareyI 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, ...Show more
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