{"product_id":"touching-that-lasts-kent-nelson-9781942280583","title":"Touching That Lasts","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eExplore the human longing for connection in these fourteen deceptively simple stories that stay hooked in the imagination long after the final page.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn these fourteen breathtaking stories, award-winning author Kent Nelson explores how very different people from disparate cultures (a rancher involved in a fight for water rights, a musician hired to play for a catatonic woman, a Native young man and woman coming of age on an Arizona reservation, a bird-carver from Vermont, among others) all long, in their own ways, for connection to loved ones and to their own histories. Nelson demonstrates his deep understanding for the ways our lives are affected and enlightened by commonplace dramas of lovemaking and landscape, divorce and discovery. Each exquisitely crafted story possesses its own lyrical sense of place.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eExperience the stories that Kent Haruf, author of \u003ci\u003ePlainsong\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eEventide\u003c\/i\u003e, said \"simply shine with subtlety and intelligence.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMark Spragg, author of \u003ci\u003eAn Unfinished Life\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eWhere the Rivers Change Direction\u003c\/i\u003e, also praises Nelson, \"He opens our hearts as only an honest storyteller may. Every story surprises . . . each drama unfolding forthrightly, naturally, each story spare, genuine, and singular.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Kent Nelson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1942280580\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781942280583\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Conundrum Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/07\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 248\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.40w x 0.70d","brand":"Kent Nelson","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48519668629759,"sku":"9781942280583","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_ef54f05c-bafe-4eb8-8bc8-869cc8ea741d.jpg?v=1778738116","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/touching-that-lasts-kent-nelson-9781942280583","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}