Books: Where You Once Belonged by Kent Haruf
I read and loved Kent Haruf’s “Plainsong†when it was released in 2000. Beautiful, spare, moving, grounded in time and place. About a pregnant teenager taken in by two old men, brothers, both bachelors. I weep just remembering their story; how they save her and how, in turn, she saves them. The other day I
(...)Doorstopper: David Grossman’s “To the End of the Landâ€
Ah, the year’s first thunk: David Grossman’s “To the End of the Land.†So lauded, so bloated. To invest in ($26.95) and lug around (576 pages) one would expect, and should receive, a Franzen. In its simplest form, this is the story of an Israeli woman who gathers up her son’s father and takes him
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