![]() ![]() ![]() One was: don’t you be a show-off, and I have tried to abide by that injunction ever since, with all its contradictions and complications. During that period of my life out on the high plains, I was more or less a happy kid, I think, and I survived childhood with only a few hard lessons that I still remember. Kent Haruf 18,320 Paperback Editors pickBest Literature & Fiction 223 offers from 0.99 The Tie That Binds Kent Haruf 1,189 Paperback 121 offers from 1.25 Where You Once Belonged Kent Haruf 934 Paperback 116 offers from 1.25 West of Last Chance Kent Haruf 70 Hardcover 28 offers from 5. “And of course,” he wrote, “it was those towns and that landscape and the culture of that specific place which has had so much influence on me and my writing. ![]() In an essay called “The Making of a Writer,” published in the most recent issue of the journal Granta, Haruf described the effect of growing up in such a setting. In that book, he established the fictional town of Holt, on “the high plains of eastern Colorado,” a composite of the three small villages in which he was raised. Haruf was something of a late bloomer his first novel, “The Ties That Bind,” did not come out until he was 41. He had been battling cancer, and recently completed his sixth novel, “Our Souls at Night,” which will be published in 2015. Kent Haruf, the Colorado writer whose 1999 novel “Plainsong” was a finalist for the National Book Award, died Sunday at age 71, his publisher Knopf has announced. ![]()
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