The Tie That Binds

Kent Haruf

ISBN 10: 0030719798 / ISBN 13: 9780030719790

Published by Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1984

About this Item

Kent Haruf's tragic first novel. A scarce book. The book has a touch of wear at top and bottom of spine. Dust jacket has a slight wrinkle at top of spine. A very nice copy. Signed on half title by the author. All our books ship in a box, and ship free within the US.

Seller Inventory # 000222

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Tie That Binds
• Publisher: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston
• Publication Date: 1984
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0030719798
• ISBN 13: 9780030719790
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • American West in fact and fiction
  • Signed Edition
  • Literary First Editions

About this title

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

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