Kent Haruf
Paperback | Pages: 300 pages Rating: 4.2 | 18811 Users | 1798 Reviews
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| Original Title: | Eventide |
| ISBN: | 0375725768 (ISBN13: 9780375725760) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Plainsong #2 |
| Setting: | Holt, Colorado(United States) Denver, Colorado(United States) |
| Literary Awards: | Colorado Book Award for Literary Fiction (2005) |
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Kent Haruf, award-winning, bestselling author of Plainsong returns to the high-plains town of Holt, Colorado, with a novel of masterful authority. The aging McPheron brothers are learning to live without Victoria Roubideaux, the single mother they took in and who has now left their ranch to start college. A lonely young boy stoically cares for his grandfather while a disabled couple tries to protect their violent relative. As these lives unfold and intersect, Eventide unveils the immemorial truths about human beings: their fragility and resilience, their selfishness and goodness, and their ability to find family in one another.Describe Of Books Eventide (Plainsong #2)
| Title | : | Eventide (Plainsong #2) |
| Author | : | Kent Haruf |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 300 pages |
| Published | : | May 3rd 2005 by Vintage (first published May 4th 2004) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Literary Fiction. Contemporary |
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Ratings: 4.2 From 18811 Users | 1798 ReviewsPiece Of Books Eventide (Plainsong #2)
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 they were one. He drove a buggy with a beautiful, older white horse pulling it. The buggy was black and had a cover mounted on risers to keep the sun and rain off. The horse wore blinders, maybe so itEventide continues Harufs 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 and a clear view of humanity at its core. It made me cry both for struggles of its characters and the clarity of its writing. Familiar characters from Plainsong, Tom Guthrie, Maggie Jones, Harold and Raymond McPheron and Victoria Robideaux are joined by a new roster of characters, young
Harold and Raymond McPlieron with their foster daughter, Victoria Robideaux and her little baby daughter continues life on the cattle ranch near the rural town, Holt, in Colorado.As life is slowly pacing along on the tracks of history, new people enter their lives, and old ones leave. The rich colors of rural life, in both culture and language spread out in this book like the autumn leaves in a forest of humanity. There is heartbreak and happiness; the good and the bad, and a story line to tie
I've never lived in a small town, nor even visited a cattle ranch, yet it feels like coming home to return once again to Holt, Colorado and the folks who live there.The old McPheron brothers are still working the cattle, with the occasional snorty bull, cows with sour dispositions, and calves bawling for their mamas. Harold and Raymond are men of few words. As long as they have been living and working together, not much needs to be said between them, and their companionable silence is just as
Letting go, image source: http://sustainablejill.com/wp-content... Eventide is the brilliant and perfect follow-up to Plainsong, told in the same, spare language and set a couple of years later. You could read it as a standalone novel, but you'd be missing more than the half you have not read - not so much in terms of plot as equilibrium.Even though a notable aspect of both books is the lack of backstory, and there are major characters in this who left not so much as a dusty footprint on the
It don't seem to matter at all what we like. It's how things are.It doesn't matter where this quote is, the context, or who said it. This is the essence of what Kent Haruf expresses in his exquisite books: what life as a human is really like, all the goodness and the almost intolerable pain. There is no excess in his writing. He takes my breath away, makes my heart pound, and my soul sing all at the same time.
So beautiful - maybe even slightly better than Plainsong. Haruf writes from the heart and in doing so he touches ours. He features good people and bad people but that's how life is. Some of his characters make you want to reach out and give them a hug, others you would like to be your best friends. All of them are memorable and provide food for thought after the book has finished.There are some really sad moments in Eventide - I was mopping up tears over one momentous death. And then there are
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