Kent Haruf

A novel of small-town life in the high plains region around Holt, Colorado, follows the challenges, emotional upheaval, tragedies, and intertwined destinies of the local inhabitants as they cope with the changes they encounter.

Eventide

Beatrix

He wanted to think of words that would make some difference but there were none in any language he knew that were sufficient to the moment or that would change a single thing. They stayed quiet for some time.

Dana Kraft

I liked this book for the same reason that I liked Plainsong and in so many ways this felt like the same book. That's good b/c the writing style has the same surprising simplicity. Not so good b/c it just seemed like the same thing. I even went back to read my review of Plainsong and I could literally duplicate it for this book. I probably won't read #3 in the trilogy for that reason.

I.m. ruzz

Haruf, like his novels, is quietly winding his way up my favorite authors list. His books are subtle, realistic and don't spare words. His characters stick with you, and though often nothing much seems to occur you feel changed a bit after reading. there's a theme in the jacket quotes about his writing, that it's more like song, or carries it's own internal rhythm and this is how you come to be changed. Through a few hours in the quiet of the world, he's created. Leaving your cell phone, your iPad, the never ending netflix queue and settling down. Your mind falls to sync with the pace of his world and it's wonderful.

Harold and Raymond McPheron are finally waving goodbye to their beloved Victoria, a young mother with a first chance at an education. Betty and Luther Wallace are struggling to keep their heads above water and their children out of care, and in the same town young friends Dena and DJ find solace away from their own troubled homes. As these stories unfold and entwine, tragedy strikes the McPheron household and life is thrown irrevocably off course. Heart-breaking yet hopeful, Kent Haruf's Eventide is an unflinching depiction of the hardships of small-town life, lit up by astonishing moments of redemption.

Eventide

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