![]() How would you like that?" To which Louis replies, "I don't want to be in any book. Addie even notes, "He could write a book about us. Haruf even ventures gently into the metafictional realm, as Louis and Addie go to see a play based on Haruf's novel Benediction (which actually debuted at a Denver theater in 2013) and debate its authenticity and logic. It's a quick burst of heartbreak in what Haruf otherwise portrays as a pair of long, quiet lives. When he and his wife reunite, Jamie goes to live with them again, and Gene refuses to let his mother see Jamie unless she breaks up with Louis. So Gene now resents Louis, suspects him of shaming his mother and wanting to take her money - on which Gene is relying, since his business is going bankrupt. Haruf lived with his wife, Cathy, in Salida, Colorado, with their three daughters.Gene’s own relationship with his deceased father was strained, as his sister died young and her father never recovered from it, and always seemed to blame Gene for her death - in which, while Gene was chasing her with a garden hose, she ran into the street and was hit by a car. Holt is loosely based on Yuma, Colorado, an early residence of Haruf in the 1980s. When Addie tries to make a connection with her neighbor. In 2006, Haruf was awarded the Dos Passos Prize for Literature.Īll of his novels are set in the fictional town of Holt, Colorado. Addie Moore and Louis Waters, a widow and widower, have lived next door to each other for years. His novel, The Tie That Binds, received a Whiting Foundation Award and a special citation from the Pen/Hemingway Foundation. Plainsong was also a finalist for the 1999 National Book Award. Haruf is the author of Plainsong, which received the Mountains and Plains Booksellers Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the Maria Thomas Award in Fiction, and The New Yorker Book Award. For two years, he taught English in Turkey with the Peace Corps and his other jobs have included a chicken farm in Colorado, a construction site in Wyoming, a rehabilitation hospital in Colorado, a hospital in Arizona, a library in Iowa, an alternative high school in Wisconsin, and universities in Nebraska and Illinois. He received his Bachelors of Arts in literature from Nebraska Wesleyan University in 1965 and his Masters of Fine Arts from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop at the University of Iowa in 1973. I highly recommend you put this book on your “To Read” pile for the summer. OUR SOULS AT NIGHT packs a lot of though-provoking messages into one small book: it’s never to late in life to make connections and establish relationships, we can find happiness is simple things like conversations, and we really shouldn’t care what other people think of us if what we are doing makes us happy. Addie, Louis, Jamie, and Bonney the dog have a wonderful summer and all four of them find comfort and solace in their little group. Addie and Louis gradually establish a routine with the boy, shower him with love and attention, and adopt a shelter dog for him. Jamie’s parents are in the middle of a separation and poor Jamie has been cast off to live with his grandmother for the summer when Jamie is dropped off at Addie’s home is upset and lonely. However, will Addie and Louis also be able to dismiss the opinions of their grown children who also get wind of their “relationship” and don’t approve of it?Īddie’s grandson, Jamie, also comes to spend the summer with Addie and Louis. Addie and Louis are happier spending time with one another than they have ever been in their lives and they are no longer lonely. The stance that they take, Addie in particular, against the nosy neighbors is that they don’t care what other people think anymore. The small town in Colorado in which Addie and Louis live start to gossip about the pair because people see Louis walking over to Addie’s house every night. Eventually they start holding hands as they communicate in the dark. ![]() They slowly get to know intimate details about each other’s past lives. They talk in the dark about their respective deceased spouses. She is lonely at night and instead of taking sleeping pills Addie would rather have a companion to talk to in the dark to help lull her to sleep.Īddie and Louis are awkward at first in a very sweet and gentle way. But there is nothing sexual or indecent about her suggestion. Since he also lives alone, Addie wants him to come over to her house at night and sleep with her and talk to her in the dark. Addie, a septuagenarian who has been widowed for years, walks over to her neighbor Louis and makes a proposition to him. This title is a brief yet beautiful read that took me by surprise. ![]() But this book piqued my interest enough for me to buy it on my own anyway. Sometimes bloggers do get rejected when they request review copies. Knopf did not let me have access to this title when I requested it on Edelweiss. Read Online Our Souls at Night Kindle Unlimited Written by Kent Haruf (Author) PDF is a great book to read and thats why I recommend reading Our Souls at Night Textbook. ![]()
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