The Tie That Binds

Kent Haruf

ISBN 10: 0030719798 / ISBN 13: 9780030719790

Published by Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1984

About this Item

Kent Haruf's tragic first novel. A scarce book. The book has a touch of wear at top and bottom of spine. Dust jacket has a slight wrinkle at top of spine. A very nice copy. Signed on half title by the author. All our books ship in a box, and ship free within the US.

Seller Inventory # 000222

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Tie That Binds
• Publisher: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston
• Publication Date: 1984
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0030719798
• ISBN 13: 9780030719790
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • American West in fact and fiction
  • Signed Edition
  • Literary First Editions

About this title

Synopsis

Edith Goodenough, the courageous daughter of Colorado homesteaders, finds herself bound by duty, love, and obligation to her crippled father and, by strength and determination, learns to live within the constraints of that responsibility

From the Inside Flap

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. The motives: the brutal business of farming and a family code of ethics as unforgiving as the winter prairie itself.

In his critically acclaimed first novel, 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. Breathtaking, determinedly truthful, The Tie That Binds is a powerfully eloquent tribute to the arduous demands of rural America, and of the tenacity of the human spirit.