Holt, eine Kleinstadt im Herzen Colorados, mitten in den Great Plains: Dad Lewis (77) ist unheilbar an Lungenkrebs erkrankt. Die Ärzte geben ihm nicht mehr viel Zeit. Und so ist es der letzte Sommer, den er zusammen verlebt mit seiner fürsorglichen Frau Mary und der gemeinsamen Tochter Lorraine, die...
If it hadn’t been for bookclub, I wouldn’t have picked up this book. After reading it, I will now have to find the movie as it stars Robert Redford and Jane Fonda and I heard it’s pretty good. I really enjoyed this book and, in the end, I felt sorry for both Addie and Louis yet, I think they were co...
This book is not for me. I am in my early twenties and have never been married — nor do I plan to take that leap. I have never been in an long-term, committed relationship. I have never felt that sort of romantic love, that connection, nor have I felt the loss that often accompanies it. Kent Haruf...
Victoria Roubideaux ist 17 Jahre alt und schwanger. Von ihrer Mutter kann sie keine Hilfe erwarten, denn diese schmeißt sie raus. Doch ihre Lehrerin Maggie Jones setzt sich für den Teenager ein und überredet die Brüder McPheron, zwei ältere Viehzüchter, das Mädchen bei sich auf einer abgeschiedenen ...
This book was quite a reading experience for me. For starters, I didn’t realise how much I depend on quotation marks when I read, until they weren’t there. I got used to it, but the first few pages I kept on going back in confusion, wondering whether or not I’d just read spoken word. I’m listening...
I'm having a very unique problem lately. This is the second book that I've thoroughly enjoyed that I can't really recommend to anyone for fear that they'll hate it. So, once again, take my rating and this review with a grain of salt. You'll likely fucking hate this book. Where You Once Belonged is a...
In Plainsong we are shown a picture of life in a Colorado ranching community. The novel focuses on the lives of teacher and his two young boys dealing with the loneliness after their mother leaves, two old cattle ranchers, and a teenage girl who is kicked out of her house when she discovers she is p...
This novella -- Kent Haruf's last -- is a bittersweet reminder of what the literary world lost when he died last November.The story is set in Haruf's fictional plains town of Holt, Colorado. This is the first sentence: "And then there was the day when Addie Moore made a call on Louis Waters." It's a...
I was attracted to this book for many reasons, not the least of them being that my husband shares a name with Louis, although it is spelled differently. Another reason is that I am a senior citizen who has often contemplated the loneliness that would come in the years ahead for one or another of us....
Once again, or rather form the last time, we return to Holt, in another simply told narrative, featuring ordinary people that are doing something less than ordinary. This is always where Haruf's talents were so admirably displayed. He took the ordinary, the common and made poignant, readable stories...
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