The Tie That Binds - Hardcover

Haruf, Kent

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0030719798 ISBN 13: 9780030719790

Publisher: Henry Holt & Co, 1984

Synopsis

Edith Goodenough, the courageous daughter of Colorado homesteaders, finds herself bound by duty, love, and obligation to her crippled father and, by strength and determination, learns to live within the constraints of that responsibility

About this title

Review:

"An impressive, expertly crafted work of sensitivity and detail. . . . Powerful." --Los Angeles Times Book Review

"[A] fine first novel that dramatically and accurately explores the lives of people who work the land in the stark American Middle West." --The New York Times Book Review

"Kent Haruf writes so wonderfully. . . . His characters live, and the voice of his narrator reverberates after the last page: humorous, ironic, loving." --The Christian Science Monitor

"Haruf's gifts as a writer go beyond choreography. He has caught his prairie people with the skill of Wright Morris, the prairie itself with the sweeping eye of Willa Cather. . . . [I]t's nearly impossible to believe this is his first novel." --Rocky Mountain News

Book Description:

The beautiful and heart-rending first novel from the author of Plainsong.

About this edition

• Publisher: Henry Holt & Co
• Publication date: 1984
• ISBN 10: 0030719798
• ISBN 13: 9780030719790
• Binding: Hardcover