- Fiction, Older women, Frontier and pioneer life, Fiction, historical, general
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.
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Earnest, grave, contemplative and bleak.
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- gravecomic
- contemplativerelentless
- warmbleak
- unpretentiousprestige
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About the book
- Author
- Kent Haruf
- First published
- 1984
- Pages
- 246
- Publisher
- Joseph, Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, Penguin Books
- Editions
- 5
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780140084665
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