Our Souls At Night
by Kent Haruf
Copyright 2015.
In Kent Haruf’s last novel, published posthumously, Addie, a widow, is lonely after the death of her husband. In desperation, she asks her long-time neighbor, Louis, a widower, to spend nights in her bed, keeping her company. Their relationship blossoms from friendship to romance amid gossip from people in the small town where they live and despite their families’ objections.
From the beginning, this author takes us directly into the story with little description of the setting. As the story progresses, we learn about our main characters’ lives through dialog instead of paragraphs of narrative back story. All this make Our Souls at Night a sweet story about two people finding happiness in their older years. The ending, though, leaves a lot to be desired.
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Perhaps his ending affected the ending?
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That’s a good point. I think he passed after he finished writing the book. He has written several other books, but I don’t know if I want to read them if they have similar endings.
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You have to try one, or you’ll never know!
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