Лучшие книги Кента Харуфа

This is a love story. A story about growing old with grace. Addie Moore and Louis Waters have been neighbours for years. Now they both live alone, their houses empty of family, their quiet nights solitary. Then one evening Addie pays Louis a visit. Soon to be a major film starring Robert Redford and Jane Fonda. Their brave adventures form the beating heart of Our Souls at Night, Kent Harufs exquisite final novel. 0

SHORTLISTED FOR THE FOLIO PRIZE. 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 girl with a troubled past moves in with her grandmother, and down town another new arrival, the Reverend Rob Lyle, attempts to mend strained relationships of his own. Utterly beautiful, and devastating yet affirming, Benediction explores the pain, the compassion and the humanity of ordinary people.

A heartstrong story of family and romance, tribulation and tenacity, set on the High Plains east of Denver. In the small town of Holt, Colorado, a high school teacher is confronted with raising his two boys alone after their mother retreats first to the bedroom, then altogether. A teenage girl—her father long since disappeared, her mother unwilling to have her in the house—is pregnant, alone herself, with nowhere to go. And out in the country, two brothers, elderly bachelors, work the family homestead, the only world they've ever known. From these unsettled lives emerges a vision of life, and of the town and landscape that bind them…

Il cofanetto della Trilogia di Holt è il punto di arrivo di un’esperienza di lettura.
Chi ha già conosciuto l’opera di Kent Haruf e chi invece desidera conoscerla può farlo partendo da questa edizione a tiratura speciale e limitata che raccoglie Benedizione, Canto della pianura e Crepuscolo – già usciti singolarmente tra il 2015 e il 2016.
Holt è una città immaginaria. Ma la comunità che la anima è unica e universale allo stesso tempo. La forza della Trilogia è proprio la capacità di coinvolgere tutti i lettori, toccando corde di umanità che ognuno di noi può ritrovare in se stesso. Una città dalla fisionomia ben precisa e sapientemente illustrata da due mappe: una ‘geografia dell’immaginario’, che rende visibili le strade, gli incroci, i luoghi di incontro, disegnata da Marco Denti; seguita da una ‘geografia del sentimento’, con le case, le vicinanze, le dimensioni più intime e familiari, disegnata da Franco Matticchio. Insieme creano una ‘traccia nascosta’ che impreziosisce l’opera.

Una nota di Cathy Haruf, moglie di Kent, completa il percorso offrendo uno sguardo sulle fasi della scrittura.

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Peter Brown’s haunting photographs of the high plains, interspersed with Kent Haruf’s narratives of the people who live there.
West of Last Chance is a unique collaboration between celebrated photographer Peter Brown and award-winning author Kent Haruf. The result is a profound visual/verbal dialogue of short prose pieces and large-format color images that brings to life this sometimes brutal and incredibly beautiful part of the country. Awarded the Dorothea Lange–Paul Taylor Prize by the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University for this project in 2005, the authors write: “Our interest in this part of the world is contemporary but also includes its history and a mix of stories that have passed down over the years, stories that resonate with the land in interesting ways.” It is an evocative work concerned with “moments that describe the beauty, power, tragedy, and cultural complexity of the place itself: the way the land has been used, the way people have lived on it, and the visual record that has been left behind.”

In The Tie That Binds, his critically acclaimed first novel, Kent Haruf delivers the sweeping tale of eighty-year-old Edith Goodnough. Narrated by her neighbour, Edith's tragedies unfold: a tough childhood, a mother's death, a violence that leaves a father dependent on his children, forever enraged. She is a woman who sacrifices everything in the name of family - until she is forced to reclaim her freedom in one dramatic and unexpe