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Eventide, Kent Haruf

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Eventide

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Kent Haruf

NATIONAL BESTSELLER? The award-winning, bestselling author of Plainsong returns to the high-plains town of Holt, Colorado, with a novel that?unveils the immemorial truths about human beings: their fragility and resilience, their selfishness and goodness, and their ability to find family in one another. "Storytelling at its best.” ? Entertainment Weekly The aging McPheron brothers are learning to live without Victoria Roubideaux, the single mother they took in and who has now left their ranch to start college. A lonely young boy stoically cares for his grandfather while a disabled couple tries to protect their a violent relative. As these lives unfold and intersect, Eventide reveals Kent Haruf as a novelist of masterful authority.? “Stunning.... The dry, cold air of Colorado's high plains seems to intensify the light Kent Haruf shines on every character in his masterful novel.... A book of hope, hope as plain and hard-won as Haruf's keenly styled prose.” ? O, The Oprah Magazine