num_pages: 176
description: In Where You Once Belonged , the bestselling and award-winning novelist of Eventide , Kent Haruf tells of a small-town hero who is dealt an enviable hand--and cheats with all of the cards.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. 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.
language: English
title: Where You Once Belonged
titlecomplete: Where You Once Belonged
genres: Fiction, The United States Of America, Americana, Literature, Adult Fiction, Contemporary, Novels, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Audiobook
ratings_count: 6394
places: Denver, Colorado, Holt, Colorado
publisher: Vintage