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Our Souls at Night: A novel - Kent Haruf
Our Souls at Night: A novel
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A spare yet eloquent, bittersweet yet inspiring story of a man and a woman who, in advanced age, come together to wrestle with the events of their lives and their hopes for the imminent future. In the familiar setting of Holt, Colorado, home to all of Kent Haruf’s inimitable fiction, Addie Moore... show more
A spare yet eloquent, bittersweet yet inspiring story of a man and a woman who, in advanced age, come together to wrestle with the events of their lives and their hopes for the imminent future. In the familiar setting of Holt, Colorado, home to all of Kent Haruf’s inimitable fiction, Addie Moore pays an unexpected visit to a neighbor, Louis Waters. Her husband died years ago, as did his wife, and in such a small town they naturally have known of each other for decades; in fact, Addie was quite fond of Louis’s wife. His daughter lives hours away in Colorado Springs, her son even farther away in Grand Junction, and Addie and Louis have long been living alone in houses now empty of family, the nights so terribly lonely, especially with no one to talk with. Their brave adventures—their pleasures and their difficulties—are hugely involving and truly resonant, making Our Souls at Night the perfect final installment to this beloved writer’s enduring contribution to American literature.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN: 9781101875896 (1101875895)
ASIN: 1101875895
Publisher: Knopf
Pages no: 192
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels, Fiction
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My Never Ending List
My Never Ending List rated it
5.0 Our Souls At Night
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...
Cody's Bookshelf
Cody's Bookshelf rated it
2.0 OUR SOULS AT NIGHT Review
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...
The Way She Reads
The Way She Reads rated it
4.5 So close to perfect, but...
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...
hearth/myth: Rursday Reads
hearth/myth: Rursday Reads rated it
5.0 Our Souls at Night - Kent Haruf
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...
Thewanderingjew
Thewanderingjew rated it
5.0 Poignant tale about loneliness!
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....
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