"Haruf was knows as a great writer and teacher whose work will endure. Like the friendly light shining from Addie's window, Haruf's final novel is a beacon of hope he is sorely missed." -Francesca Wade, Financial Times
His novels are imbued with an affection and understanding that transform the most mundane details into poetry. I recommend reading it straight through, then sitting in quiet reflection of beautiful literary art." -Fred Ohles, The Lincoln Journal Star "Haruf is never sentimental, and the ending-multiple twists packed into the last twenty pages-is gritty, painful and utterly human.
"By turns amusing and sad, skipping-down-the-sidewalk light and pensive. The story speeds along, almost as if it's a page-turning mystery." -Joseph Peschel, The St. 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. "Elegiac, mournful and compassionate.a triumphant end to an inspiring literary career a reminder of a loss on the American cultural landscape, as well as a parting gift from a master storyteller." -William J. Haruf's story accumulates resonance through carefully chosen details the novel is quiet but never complacent." - The New Yorker He has given us a powerful, pared-down story of two characters who refuse to go gentle into that good night." -Lynn Rosen, The Philadelphia Enquirer "A delicate, sneakily devastating evocation of place and character. As a meditation on life and forthcoming death, Haruf couldn't have done any better. Packed into less than 200 pages are all the issues late life provokes." -John Freeman, The Boston Globe "A fitting close to a storied career, a beautiful rumination on aging, accommodation, and our need to connect. 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. "Lateness-and second chances-have always been a theme for Haruf. spare but eloquent, bittersweet yet hopeful." -Kurt Rabin, The Fredericksburg Freelance-Star The novel is a plainspoken, vernacular farewell." -Catherine Holmes, The Charleston Post and Courier "A marvelous addition to his oeuvre. 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. "More Winesburg that Mayberry, Holt and its residents are shaped by physical solitude and emotional reticence. But maybe that could change? As Addie and Louis come to know each other better-their pleasures and their difficulties-a beautiful story of second chances unfolds, making Our Souls at Night the perfect final installment to this beloved writer's enduring contribution to American literature.Ī BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The Boston Globe, St. His daughter lives hours away, her son even farther, and Addie and Louis have long been living alone in empty houses, the nights so terribly lonely, especially with no one to talk with. 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. 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. 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.
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