Haruf, Kent

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Award-winning novelist and short story writer Kent Haruf sets his novels in fictional Holt, a small farming community in northeast Colorado. In spare prose and terse dialog he delineates the lives of the denizens. He relates these stories of emotionally compelling characters with sensitivity and without melodrama or sentimentality. Haruf proves himself a compassionate observer of small town life, its characters and its mores, in these leisurely-paced, heartwarming novels, rich in details of time and place. Although the characters face hard decisions and tragedy, the outlook is basically hopeful and often gently humorous. Start with: Plainsong
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Haruf, Kent
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Award-winning novelist and short story writer Kent Haruf sets his novels in fictional Holt, a small farming community in northeast Colorado. In spare prose and terse dialog he delineates the lives of the denizens. He relates these stories of emotionally compelling characters with sensitivity and without melodrama or sentimentality. Haruf proves himself a compassionate observer of small town life, its characters and its mores, in these leisurely-paced, heartwarming novels, rich in details of time and place. Although the characters face hard decisions and tragedy, the outlook is basically hopeful and often gently humorous. Start with: Plainsong
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