The Resource Benediction, Kent Haruf
Benediction, Kent Haruf
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The item Benediction, Kent Haruf represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Austin Public Library.
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
This resource has been enriched with EBSCO NoveList data.
- Summary
- When Dad Lewis is diagnosed with terminal cancer, he and his wife, Mary, must work together to make his final days as comfortable as possible. Their daughter, Lorraine, hastens back from Denver to help look after him; her devotion softens the bitter absence of their estranged son, Frank, but this cannot be willed away and remains a palpable presence for all three of them. Next door, a young girl named Alice moves in with her grandmother and contends with the painful memories that Dad's condition stirs up of her own mother's death. Meanwhile, the town's newly arrived preacher attempts to mend his strained relationships with his wife and teenaged son, a task that proves all the more challenging when he faces the disdain of his congregation after offering more than they are accustomed to getting on a Sunday morning. And throughout, an elderly widow and her middle-aged daughter do everything they can to ease the pain of their friends and neighbors
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First Vintage Contemporaries edition.
- Extent
- 257 pages
- Note
-
- "Vintage Contemporaries Vintage Books a Division of Random House LLC, New York."
- At head of title on cover: National bestseller
- Isbn
- 9780307950420
- Label
- Benediction
- Title
- Benediction
- Statement of responsibility
- Kent Haruf
- Subject
-
- truePeople with cancer
- trueFather and adult son
- trueDomestic fiction
- Colorado -- Fiction
- trueMen with terminal illnesses -- Family relationships
- trueBereavement in families
- trueFamily relationships
- Cancer -- Patients -- Colorado -- Fiction
- trueDeath
- trueAlienation in families
- trueLoss (Psychology)
- High Plains (U.S.) -- Fiction
- trueColorado
- truePsychological fiction
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- When Dad Lewis is diagnosed with terminal cancer, he and his wife, Mary, must work together to make his final days as comfortable as possible. Their daughter, Lorraine, hastens back from Denver to help look after him; her devotion softens the bitter absence of their estranged son, Frank, but this cannot be willed away and remains a palpable presence for all three of them. Next door, a young girl named Alice moves in with her grandmother and contends with the painful memories that Dad's condition stirs up of her own mother's death. Meanwhile, the town's newly arrived preacher attempts to mend his strained relationships with his wife and teenaged son, a task that proves all the more challenging when he faces the disdain of his congregation after offering more than they are accustomed to getting on a Sunday morning. And throughout, an elderly widow and her middle-aged daughter do everything they can to ease the pain of their friends and neighbors
- Summary
- A terminally ill cancer patient is attended throughout his final days by his wife and daughter while the trio contemplates their relationships with an estranged son, a situation that stirs up painful memories for a new next-door neighbor who has recently lost her mother
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- 10169414
- Cataloging source
- BTCTA
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Haruf, Kent
- Dewey number
- 813/.54
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Cancer
- High Plains (U.S.)
- Colorado
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- Benediction, Kent Haruf
- Note
-
- "Vintage Contemporaries Vintage Books a Division of Random House LLC, New York."
- At head of title on cover: National bestseller
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- ocn846544856
- Dimensions
- 21 cm.
- Edition
- First Vintage Contemporaries edition.
- Extent
- 257 pages
- Isbn
- 9780307950420
- Isbn Type
- (pbk.)
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)846544856
- Label
- Benediction, Kent Haruf
- Note
-
- "Vintage Contemporaries Vintage Books a Division of Random House LLC, New York."
- At head of title on cover: National bestseller
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- ocn846544856
- Dimensions
- 21 cm.
- Edition
- First Vintage Contemporaries edition.
- Extent
- 257 pages
- Isbn
- 9780307950420
- Isbn Type
- (pbk.)
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)846544856
Subject
- trueAlienation in families
- trueBereavement in families
- Cancer -- Patients -- Colorado -- Fiction
- trueColorado
- Colorado -- Fiction
- trueDeath
- trueDomestic fiction
- trueFamily relationships
- trueFather and adult son
- High Plains (U.S.) -- Fiction
- trueLoss (Psychology)
- trueMen with terminal illnesses -- Family relationships
- truePeople with cancer
- truePsychological fiction
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