Where You Once Belonged, Kent Haruf
Where You Once Belonged, Kent Haruf
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Where You Once Belonged

Author: Kent Haruf

Narrator: Kirby Heyborne

Unabridged: 6 hr 9 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/04/2017


Synopsis

In Where You Once Belonged, the bestselling and award-winning novelist of Eventide, Kent Haruf tells of a small-town hero who is dealt an enviable hand--and cheats with all of the cards.

Deftly plotted, defiantly honest, Where You Once Belonged sings the song of a wounded prairie community in a narrative with the earmarks of a modern American classic. In prose as lean and supple as a spring switch, Haruf describes a high school football star who wins the heart of the loveliest girl in the county and the admiration of men twice his age. Fun-loving, independent, Burdette engages in the occasional prank. But when he turns into a man, his high jinks turn into crimes--with unspeakable consequences. Now, eight years later, Burdette has returned to commit his greatest trespass of all. And the  people of Holt may not be able to stop him.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Carol on January 28, 2018

Last week, my great-niece posted a story (on Facebook) about a family that recently became stranded in a whiteout blizzard on I-70 in eastern Colorado. They pulled off at the closest exit, which happened to be the town where I grew up. Some volunteer firefighters invited all of the stranded vehicle......more

Goodreads review by Betsy on December 27, 2016

Kent Haruf understood people. He wrote about small-town people, but really they are people like everywhere else: proud, arrogant, hurt, angry, frustrated, petty, judgmental. In Where You Once Belonged Haruf displays his perfect pitch for understated truth through behavior and simple dialogue and plo......more

Goodreads review by Pedro on September 17, 2023

I really tried to stop and leave a few pages for tomorrow, but the truth is I couldn’t even slow down. To be completely honest, I don’t even think I was in control of my emotions because the world around me completely ceased to exist and, all of a sudden, I was living in these pages instead. As weir......more


Quotes

"Taut and deadly. . . . A terse and beautifully wrought narration."  --Los Angeles Times

"A beautifully told parable--simple and stark and true." --Newsday

"Where You Once Belonged speaks with the authenticity of . . . Hemingway and Faulkner." --The Denver Post

"Haruf's brooding, pondering style translates into first-class writing." --Rocky Mountain News