ISBN: 0307807851 9780307807854

Category: Fiction / Literary

Page count: 176

In <i>Where You Once Belonged</i>, the bestselling and award-winning novelist of <i>Eventide</i>, Kent Haruf tells of a small-town hero who is dealt an enviable hand--and cheats with all of the cards. <br><br>Deftly plotted, defiantly honest, <i>Where You Once Belonged</i> sings the song of a wounded prairie community in a narrative with the earmarks of a modern American classic. 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.