03468cam a2200349 4500 526964834 TxAuBib 20211106120000.0 ||||||s2013||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780385363648 0385363648 9674e74f-3d93-4414-8431-b3e65715ea5c OverDrive (Reserve ID) 966885 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Haruf Kent. Benediction [Libby]. Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group, 2013. Format: OverDrive OverDrive MP3 Audiobook, Filesize: 242MB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Listen, Filesize: 242MB. Fiction. Literature. HTML:<b>A Shelf Awareness Best Book of the Year</b><br /> From the beloved and best-selling author of <i>Plainsong</i> and <i>Eventide</i> comes a story of life and death, and the ties that bind, once again set out on the High Plains in Holt, Colorado.<br /> When Dad Lewis is diagnosed with terminal cancer, he and his wife, Mary, must work together to make his final days as comfortable as possible. Their daughter, Lorraine, hastens back from Denver to help look after him; her devotion softens the bitter absence of their estranged son, Frank, but this cannot be willed away and remains a palpable presence for all three of them. Next door, a young girl named Alice moves in with her grandmother and contends with the painful memories that Dad's condition stirs up of her own mother's death. Meanwhile, the town's newly arrived preacher attempts to mend his strained relationships with his wife and teenaged son, a task that proves all the more challenging when he faces the disdain of his congregation after offering more than they are accustomed to getting on a Sunday morning. And throughout, an elderly widow and her middle-aged daughter do everything they can to ease the pain of their friends and neighbors.<br /> Despite the travails that each of these families faces, together they form bonds strong enough to carry them through the most difficult of times. Bracing, sad and deeply illuminating, <i>Benediction</i> captures the fullness of life by representing every stage of it, including its extinction, as well as the hopes and dreams that sustain us along the way. Here Kent Haruf gives us his most indelible portrait yet of this small town and reveals, with grace and insight, the compassion, the suffering and, above all, the humanity of its inhabitants. Media Type: Audiobook. Earphones Award. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2021-11-04 17:40:22. Bramhall, Mark. https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-25/1191-1/966885-Benediction.wma Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/1191-1/966885-Benediction.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=9674E74F-3D93-4414-8431-B3E65715EA5C&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-25/1191-1/966885-Benediction.wma Excerpt (OverDrive Listen) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/1191-1/966885-Benediction.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive Listen) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=9674E74F-3D93-4414-8431-B3E65715EA5C&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Listen)