06001cam a2200493 4500 239459487 TxAuBib 20140810120000.0 ||||||s2015||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781101875902 1101875909 B00PP3DNDI Amazon 8a24f8ad-a570-482e-aba8-e26dc329e073 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 252367 2047147 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Haruf, Kent. Our Souls at Night [Bridges eBook] : A novel. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2015. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 845kB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read, Filesize: 842kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. HTML: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. This eBook edition includes a Reading Group Guide. "Haruf was knows as a great writer and teacher whose work will endure. . . . The cadence of this book is soft and gentle, filled with shy emotion, as tentative as a young person's first kiss--timeless in its beauty. . . . Addie and Louis find a type of love that, as our society ages, ever more people in the baby boom generation may find is the only kind of love that matters.". HTML:Jim Ewing, The Jackson Clarion-Ledger. "Haruf is never sentimental, and the ending--multiple twists packed into the last twenty pages--is gritty, painful and utterly human. . . . His novels are imbued with an affection and understanding that transform the most mundane details into poetry. Like the friendly light shining from Addie's window, Haruf's final novel is a beacon of hope; he is sorely missed.". HTML:Francesca Wade, Financial Times. "More Winesburg that Mayberry, Holt and its residents are shaped by physical solitude and emotional reticence. . . . Haruf's fiction ratifies ordinary, nonflashy decency, but he also knows that even the most placid lives are more complicated than they appear from the outside. . . . The novel is a plainspoken, vernacular farewell.". HTML:Catherine Holmes, The Charleston Post and Courier. "A fitting close to a storied career, a beautiful rumination on aging, accommodation, and our need to connect. . . . As a meditation on life and forthcoming death, Haruf couldn't have done any better. He has given us a powerful, pared-down story of two characters who refuse to go gentle into that good night.". HTML:Lynn Rosen, The Philadelphia Enquirer. "Lateness--and second chances--have always been a theme for Haruf. But here, in a book about love and the aftermath of grief, in his final hours, he has produced his most intense expression of that yet. . . . Packed into less than 200 pages are all the issues late life provokes.". HTML:John Freeman, The Boston Globe. "Elegiac, mournful and compassionate. . .a triumphant end to an inspiring literary career [and] a reminder of a loss on the American cultural landscape, as well as a parting gift from a master storyteller.". HTML:William J. Cobb, The Dallas Morning News. "A fine and poignant novel that demonstrates that our desire to love and to be loved does not dissolve with age. . . . The story speeds along, almost as if it's a page-turning mystery.". HTML:Joseph Peschel, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch. "By turns amusing and sad, skipping-down-the-sidewalk light and pensive. . . . I recommend reading it straight through, then sitting in quiet reflection of beautiful literary art.". HTML:Fred Ohles, The Lincoln Journal Star. "A delicate, sneakily devastating evocation of place and character. . . . Haruf's story accumulates resonance through carefully chosen details; the novel is quiet but never complacent.". HTML:The New Yorker. "There is so much wisdom in this beautifully pared-back and gentle book. . . a small, quiet gem, written in English so plain that it sparkles.". HTML:Anne Susskind, The Sydney Morning Herald. "A marvelous addition to his oeuvre. . . . spare but eloquent, bittersweet yet hopeful.". 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