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Jan 1, 2001 · Kent Haruf. 4.11. 9,299 ratings1,217 reviews. From the bestselling author of Eventide, The Tie That Binds is a powerfully eloquent tribute to the arduous demands of rural America, and of the tenacity of the human spirit. Colorado, January 1977.
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Mar 1, 2000 · Colorado, 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.
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THE TIE THAT BINDS. by Kent Haruf ‧ RELEASE DATE: Oct. 29, 1984. A sentimental, wool-gathering first novel about an elderly Colorado farm woman who sets fire to her house to end the misery of her senile bachelor brother--and, in the process, her own deprived existence (entwined in his) as well.
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Colorado, 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.
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This book is so beautiful that it is difficult to review. Told from the perspective of Sandy Roscoe, whose father was in love with Edith Goodnough. She now lies in a hospital bed awaiting possible charges for murder.
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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.
