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“It was still hot outside, though the sun had begun to lean to the west, and the first intimations of fall were in the air – that smell of dust and dry leaves, that annual lonesomeness that comes of summer closing down.” Sixteen years ago, when Eventide was first published, if you had walked up to me Leggi tutto

Kent Haruf - 1943 - 2014 - image from Colorado Central Magazine - photo by Mike Rosso Eventide continues Haruf’s depiction of Holt, Colorado, begun in Plainsong , of a small town with a wide range of humanity. Like Plainsong , Eventide is a beautiful work with moving characters, captivating imagery, a Leggi tutto

Where I grew up, there was an old bachelor who lived about half a mile farther from town than we did. He lived in a tiny shack of a house and would often drop in to our place on the way to or from town. I will call him Charlie, although everyone always said his first and last names together like the Leggi tutto

This is the follow up to Plainsong, returning to the small town of Holt, Colorado. A few characters make appearances again along with several new ones. I was thrilled to be back with the McPheron brothers, especially. They rate highly in my list of favorite-ever characters😍 This novel deals a lot with Leggi tutto

“But I’m still going to miss you.” (4.5 stars) Within the first few chapters of this book my heart was knifed by the sheer humanity of these characters. Mr. Haruf writes about the “flyover” people, as our media would call them. “Deplorables”, as our politicians would call them. But Mr. Haruf renders Leggi tutto