Eventide

Kent Haruf, award-winning, bestselling author of Plainsong, returns to the high-plains town of Holt, Colorado, with a novel of masterful authority.

Following the astonishing Plainsong, Eventide is Kent Haruf''s second novel set in his imaginary landscape of Holt, Colorado.

Harold and Raymond McPheron are finally waving goodbye to their beloved Victoria, a young mother with a first chance at an education. Betty and Luther Wallace are struggling to keep their heads above water and their children out of care, and in the same town young friends Dena and DJ find solace away from their own troubled homes. As these stories unfold and entwine, tragedy strikes the McPheron household and life is thrown irrevocably off course.

Heart-breaking yet hopeful, Kent Haruf''s Eventide is an unflinching depiction of the hardships of small-town life, lit up by astonishing moments of redemption.

• | Author: Kent Haruf
• | Publisher: Pan Macmillan
• | Publication Date: Apr 11, 2013
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• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-13: 9781447240457
• | ISBN-10: 1447240456