What comes out of their mouths, whether it is kind, mean, ignorant, confused, intelligent or clouded by loneliness, is true and hard, spare as life on the plains.
Haruf’s uncanny ability to stay out of his characters’ way is evident again in Eventide. In creating a place whose people are tethered to each other by history and emotion as much as place, Haruf’s work is now competing with Faulkner’s Mississippi. Haruf’s laconic style – with nouns as strong and upright as fenceposts, the verbs as clean and sharp as razor wire – creates a richly symphonic effect. The plain truth is you can’t stop reading or caring about them. Two taciturn bachelor brothers, a dim-bulb couple living in a trailer, a quiet preteen boy living with his grandfather, a social worker, and a young mother abandoned by her husband. Read more in affirming life without ducking its hardships. peopled with individuals whose ordinary lives are invested with epic quality and truth. Possesses the haunting appeal of music, the folksy rhythms of an American tale and the lovely, measured grace of an old hymn. Read more Kent Haruf's Eventide is an unflinching depiction of the hardships of small-town life, lit up by astonishing moments of redemption. As these stories unfold and entwine, tragedy strikes the McPheron household and life is thrown irrevocably off course. 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. Harold and Raymond McPheron are finally waving goodbye to their beloved Victoria, a young mother with a first chance at an education.
Following the astonishing Plainsong, Eventide is Kent Haruf's second novel set in his imaginary landscape of Holt, Colorado. Following the astonishing Plainsong, Eventide is Haruf's second novel set in his imaginary landscape of Holt, Colorado. Description for Eventide (Plainsong 2) Paperback.
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