Where You Once Belonged

Where You Once Belonged
by Kent Haruf

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Author: Kent Haruf
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2000-03
ISBN: 0375708707
Number of pages: 176
Publisher: Vintage

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Book Review: A really good story
Summary: 5 Stars

This is a book that I read in one sitting. It is relatively short, and the pacing is rapid. It is told through the eyes of the town newspaper editor, Pat Arbuckle, whose life is intertwined in various ways with the town rogue, Jack Burdette. Jack is the lovable rogue who causes havoc in the lives of an entire town, but especially in Wanda Jo who loves him, Jessie who marries him, and Pat who loves Jessie. Not to mention the people he stole from. The ending is abrupt and the only one that is plausible. This story doesn't need a storybook ending and we don't get it. Haruf is a masterful writer who can depict his characters with only a few words--a way of speaking, a gesture, even omissions. He knows his territory and people. We can only hope that he makes Holt, Colorado, into the basis for a saga.

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Summary of Where You Once Belonged

The red Cadillac pulled down Main Street and sat by the tavern for hours, unnoticed. Then Ralph Bird of the Men's Store recognized the driver as Jack Burdette and bolted to the sheriff's office. The prodigal son of Holt, Colorado, had returned--and he was far from welcome.

In Where You Once Belonged, acclaimed novelist Kent Haruf tells of a small-town hero who is dealt an enviable hand--and cheats with all of the cards. In prose as lean and supple as a spring switch, Haruf describes a high school football star who wins the heart of the loveliest girl in the county and the admiration of men twice his age. Fun-loving, independent, Burdette engages in the occasional prank. But when he turns into a man, his high jinks turn into crimes--with unspeakable consequences. Now, eight years later, Burdette has returned to commit his greatest trespass of all. And the people of Holt may not be able to stop him. Deftly plotted, defiantly honest, Where You Once Belonged sings the song of a wounded prairie community in a narrative with the earmarks of a modern American classic.

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