Benediction

Resource Information

The work Benediction represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Austin Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Benediction

Statement of responsibility

Kent Haruf

Creator

• trueHaruf, Kent

Subject

• Colorado -- Fiction
• Domestic fiction
• Cancer -- Patients -- Colorado -- Fiction
• High Plains (U.S.) -- Fiction

Genre

• Fiction
• Domestic 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

Cataloging source

BTCTA

Dewey number

813/.54

Index

no index present

Literary form

fiction