{"product_id":"the-tie-that-binds-isbn-9780375724381","title":"The Tie That Binds","description":"From the bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eEventide\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Tie That Binds\u003c\/i\u003e is a powerfully eloquent tribute to the arduous demands of rural America, and of the tenacity of the human spirit.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eColorado, January 1977. Eighty-year-old Edith Goodnough lies in a hospital bed, IV taped to the back of her hand, police officer at her door. She is charged with murder. The clues: a sack of chicken feed slit with a knife, a milky-eyed dog tied outdoors one cold afternoon. The motives: the brutal business of farming and a family code of ethics as unforgiving as the winter prairie itself. Here, Kent Haruf delivers the sweeping tale of a woman of the American High Plains, as told by her neighbor, Sanders Roscoe. As Roscoe shares what he knows, Edith's tragedies unfold: a childhood of pre-dawn chores, a mother's death, a violence that leaves a father dependent on his children, forever enraged. Here is the story of a woman who sacrifices her happiness in the name of family--and then, in one gesture, reclaims her freedom.\"An impressive, expertly crafted work of sensitivity and detail. . . . Powerful.\"  --\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[A] fine first novel that dramatically and accurately explores the lives of people who work the land in the stark American Middle West.\"  --\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Kent Haruf writes so wonderfully. . . . His characters live, and the voice of his narrator reverberates after the last page: humorous, ironic, loving.\"  --\u003ci\u003eThe Christian Science Monitor\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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.\"  --\u003ci\u003eRocky Mountain News\u003c\/i\u003eKent Haruf is the author of five previous novels (and, with the photographer Peter Brown, \u003ci\u003eWest of Last Chance\u003c\/i\u003e). His honors include a Whiting Foundation Writers’ Award, the Mountains \u0026amp; Plains Booksellers Award, the Wallace Stegner Award, and a special citation from the PEN\/Hemingway Foundation; he was also a finalist for the National Book Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and the New Yorker Book Award. He died in November 2014, at the age of seventy-one.Author of Plainsong","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304996425957,"sku":"NP9780375724381","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780375724381.jpg?v=1767741854","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-tie-that-binds-isbn-9780375724381","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}