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    Where You Once Belonged

    Author Kent Haruf
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    On sale Jul 04, 2017 | 6 Hours and 10 Minutes | 9780525497004
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    In Where You Once Belonged, the bestselling and award-winning novelist of Eventide, Kent Haruf tells of a small-town hero who is dealt an enviable hand--and cheats with all of the cards.

    Deftly plotted, defiantly honest, Where You Once Belonged sings the song of a wounded prairie community in a narrative with the earmarks of a modern American classic. In prose as lean and supple as a spring switch, Haruf describes a high school football star who wins the heart of the loveliest girl in the county and the admiration of men twice his age. Fun-loving, independent, Burdette engages in the occasional prank. But when he turns into a man, his high jinks turn into crimes--with unspeakable consequences. Now, eight years later, Burdette has returned to commit his greatest trespass of all. And the  people of Holt may not be able to stop him.
    © Cathy Haruf
    Kent Haruf is the author of five previous novels (and, with the photographer Peter Brown, West of Last Chance). His honors include a Whiting Foundation Writers’ Award, the Mountains & Plains Booksellers Award, the Wallace Stegner Award, and a special citation from the PEN/Hemingway Foundation; he was also a finalist for the National Book Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and the New Yorker Book Award. He died in November 2014, at the age of seventy-one. View titles by Kent Haruf
    "Taut and deadly. . . . A terse and beautifully wrought narration."  --Los Angeles Times

    "A beautifully told parable--simple and stark and true." --Newsday

    "Where You Once Belonged speaks with the authenticity of . . . Hemingway and Faulkner." --The Denver Post

    "Haruf's brooding, pondering style translates into first-class writing." --Rocky Mountain News

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    In Where You Once Belonged, the bestselling and award-winning novelist of Eventide, Kent Haruf tells of a small-town hero who is dealt an enviable hand--and cheats with all of the cards.

    Deftly plotted, defiantly honest, Where You Once Belonged sings the song of a wounded prairie community in a narrative with the earmarks of a modern American classic. In prose as lean and supple as a spring switch, Haruf describes a high school football star who wins the heart of the loveliest girl in the county and the admiration of men twice his age. Fun-loving, independent, Burdette engages in the occasional prank. But when he turns into a man, his high jinks turn into crimes--with unspeakable consequences. Now, eight years later, Burdette has returned to commit his greatest trespass of all. And the  people of Holt may not be able to stop him.

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    © Cathy Haruf
    Kent Haruf is the author of five previous novels (and, with the photographer Peter Brown, West of Last Chance). His honors include a Whiting Foundation Writers’ Award, the Mountains & Plains Booksellers Award, the Wallace Stegner Award, and a special citation from the PEN/Hemingway Foundation; he was also a finalist for the National Book Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and the New Yorker Book Award. He died in November 2014, at the age of seventy-one. View titles by Kent Haruf

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    "Taut and deadly. . . . A terse and beautifully wrought narration."  --Los Angeles Times

    "A beautifully told parable--simple and stark and true." --Newsday

    "Where You Once Belonged speaks with the authenticity of . . . Hemingway and Faulkner." --The Denver Post

    "Haruf's brooding, pondering style translates into first-class writing." --Rocky Mountain News

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