The Tie That Binds - 9780375724381
Un libro in lingua di Kent Haruf edito da Vintage Books, 2000
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Colorado, January 1977. Eighty-year-old Edith Goodnough lies in a hospital bed, IV taped to the back of her hand, police officer at her door. She is charged with murder. The clues: a sack of chicken feed slit with a knife, a milky-eyed dog tied outdoors one cold afternoon. The motives: the brutal business of farming and a family code of ethics as unforgiving as the winter prairie itself.
In his critically acclaimed first novel, Kent Haruf delivers the sweeping tale of a woman of the American High Plains, as told by her neighbor, Sanders Roscoe. As Roscoe shares what he knows, Edith's tragedies unfold: a childhood of pre-dawn chores, a mother's death, a violence that leaves a father dependent on his children, forever enraged. Here is the story of a woman who sacrifices her happiness in the name of family--and then, in one gesture, reclaims her freedom. Breathtaking, determinedly truthful, The Tie That Binds is a powerfully eloquent tribute to the arduous demands of rural America, and of the tenacity of the human spirit.
Informazioni bibliografiche
- Titolo del Libro in lingua: The Tie That Binds
- Sottotitolo: A Novel
- Lingua: English
- Autore: Kent Haruf
- Editore: Vintage Books
- Collana: Vintage Books (Paperback)
- Data di Pubblicazione: 01 Marzo '00
- Genere: FICTION
- Argomenti : Frontier and pioneer life Fiction Older women Fiction
- Pagine: 246
- Dimensioni mm: 209 x 139 x 19
- ISBN-10: 0375724389
- EAN-13: 9780375724381