📗 Libro en inglés BENEDICTION

ST. MARTIN'S GRIFFIN - 9780307950420

Literatura en inglés

Sinopsis de BENEDICTION

A Shelf Awareness Best Book of the Year From the beloved and best-selling author of "Plainsong "and "Eventide" comes a story of life and death, and the ties that bind, once again set out on the High Plains in Holt, Colorado. When Dad Lewis is diagnosed with terminal cancer, he and his wife, Mary, must work together to make his final days as comfortable as possible. Their daughter, Lorraine, hastens back from Denver to help look after him; her devotion softens the bitter absence of their estranged son, Frank, but this cannot be willed away and remains a palpable presence for all three of them. Next door, a young girl named Alice moves in with her grandmother and contends with the painful memories that Dad's condition stirs up of her own mother's death. Meanwhile, the town's newly arrived preacher attempts to mend his strained relationships with his wife and teenaged son, a task that proves all the more challenging when he faces the disdain of his congregation after offering more than they are accustomed to getting on a Sunday morning. And throughout, an elderly widow and her middle-aged daughter do everything they can to ease the pain of their friends and neighbors. Despite the travails that each of these families faces, together they form bonds strong enough to carry them through the most difficult of times. Bracing, sad and deeply illuminating, "Benediction "captures the fullness of life by representing every stage of it, including its extinction, as well as the hopes and dreams that sustain us along the way. Here Kent Haruf gives us his most indelible portrait yet of this small town and reveals, with grace and insight, the compassion, the suffering and, above all, the humanity of its inhabitants.

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Editorial: St. Martin's Griffin

ISBN: 9780307950420

Idioma: Inglés

Encuadernación: Tapa blanda

Fecha de lanzamiento: 16/01/2014

Año de edición: 2013


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Escrito por Kent Haruf


Kent Haruf
Kent Haruf (1943-2014) va néixer a Colorado, als Estats Units, lloc on ha situat totes les seves ficcions literàries. Llicenciat en arts i literatura per la Universitat de Wesleyan, Nebraska, va rebre els guardons que concedeixen l’Associació de Llibreters Mountains & Plains i la Fundació Whiting, el Premi Wallace Stegner i el John Dos Passos de literatura, així com una menció de la Fundació PEN/Hemingway i les distincions que atorguen Los Angeles Times i The New Yorker. També va ser finalista del National Book Award. Haruf va morir el novembre del 2014, just després d’acabar Nosaltres en la nit (Angle, 2017). La Trilogia de Holt (Cançó de la plana, Capvespre i Benedicció) li va valdre el reconeixement unànime dels lectors i la crítica literària gràcies a una prosa plàcida i senzilla, amb què explora les emocions i les relacions humanes d’una petita comunitat rural on també situa El vincle més fort.

Fotografía: (c) Patricia Benton
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