7/7/2023 0 Comments Kent haruf plainsong review![]() Dad is a proud, upstanding man with traditional values he is somewhat stubborn too, and like most of us he has regrets in life. 5)Īs Dad’s story opens up, we learn a little more about his earlier years. Someone would cut his name into the face of a tombstone and it would be as if he never was. By the beginning of September the dirt would be piled over what was left of him out at the cemetery three miles east of town. He would be dead before the end of summer. He sat and drank the beer and held his wife’s hand sitting out on the front porch. As close friends and workmates come to say their farewells, Dad’s loving wife, Mary, and daughter, Lorraine, try to ease the pain of his final weeks at home. ![]() An honest, reliable, plain-speaking man, Dad is old and dying of cancer. The central character in Benediction is Dad Lewis, owner of the local hardware store for more than fifty years. Each novel can be read independently but what unites them is a strong sense of place and community. ![]() I read the first two ( Plainsong and Eventide) a year or so ago, but they have been widely reviewed elsewhere. Benediction is the third book in Kent Haruf’s Plainsong trilogy, a series of novels set in the fictional town of Holt, Colorado. ![]()
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