The Tie That Binds (1984) (edit title/settings)

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• Edith Goodnough: A wheat farmer's daughter from Holt, Colorado. The protagonist of the story.
• Sanders Roscoe: Edith's neighbor and a wheat farmer. The narrator.
• Bud Sealy: The sheriff in Holt, Colorado.
• Dick Harrington: A reporter from the Denver Post.
• Lyman Goodnough: Edith Goodnough's younger brother.
• Roy Goodnough: Edith and Lyman Goodnough's father, originally from Cedar County, Iowa. 1870-1952.
• Ada Goodnough, nee Twamley: Roy Goodnough's wife, originally from Johnson County, Iowa. 1872-1914.
• Mavis: Sanders Roscoe's wife
• Rena Pickett: Sanders Roscoe's daughter.

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• “Pearl Harbor was hell and tragedy for most Americans, but it was what Lyman Goodnough was waiting for.”

  Sanders Roscoe

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• And that old son of a bitch didn’t believe in any such luxuries; kids were laborers to him, custom-made, self-sired farmhands to be ordered around however, whenever, he deemed fit.

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• IN THE SUMMER of 1963 I got married. Or, to be more accurate, I should say Mavis Pickett decided she was not going to wait any longer.

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• when she was crossed she could run the strong stuff out of your backbone like it was so much water;

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• when you’ve run down at last, believing for once that you’ve persuaded her to see your side of sound reason, she jumps up and goes ahead and does whatever it was she intended to do in the first place,

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• Denver
• Iowa
• Main Street
• Holt County
• Colorado
• Los Angeles
• Goodnoughs
• California

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Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Kent Haruf (Author)

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Awards edit see section history

• Maria Thomas Award (1991: Fiction)

Classification edit see section history

• Library of Congress: 84004567
• Dewey: 813.54

Subjects edit see section history

• Books › Literature & Fiction › Women's Fiction › Domestic Life
• Books › Literature & Fiction › Literary
• Books › Literature & Fiction › Contemporary

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