![]() ![]() ![]() This is the only sort of night that he has. A widower named Louis Waters ( Robert Redford) sits alone in the kitchen of a house that was clearly meant for two. It begins with the folksy twang of a guitar and shots of streetlights blinking awake as night falls on a small Colorado town. with a stunning sense of all that's passed and the precious importance of the days that remain.Told with with the gentle touch of a partner taking your arm on an afternoon stroll, Ritesh Batra’s “ Our Souls at Night” is a wise and wistful drama about life after death regardless of how old you are, this is the kind of movie that your parents would like. Psychologies Magazine Gripping and tender. a melancholy reminder that happiness can be fragile. Or jump in at the end, with this novel a graceful story. Haruf's final novel is a beacon of hope he is sorely missed - Francesca Wade Financial Times I loved Kent Haruf's small-town love story - David Nicholls If you haven't read Kent Haruf's wonderful backlist, now is the time to discover it. his novels are imbued with an affection and understanding that transform the most mundane details into poetry. It's an astonishing piece of writing Literary Review Gritty, painful and human. unputdownable as a thriller - an unlikely page-turner full of quiet surprises. Ron Charles Washington Post A novel full of kindness, open-heartedness and grace, of ordinary experiences and commonplace regret. such a tender, carefully polished work that it seems like a blessing we had no right to expect. Wall Street Journal Utterly charming and distilled to elemental purity. Our Souls at Night is already creating a stir. This novel runs on the dogged insistence that simple elements carry depths, and readers will find much to be grateful for. Esquire His great subject was the struggle of decency against small-mindedness, and his rare gift was to make sheer decency a moving subject. Red Magazine In a fitting and gorgeous end to a body of work that prizes resilience above all else, Haruf has bequeathed readers a map charting a future that is neither easy nor painless, but it's also not something we have to bear alone. ![]() Haruf's story accumulates resonance through carefully chosen details the novel is quiet but never complacent New Yorker An eloquent 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 future. Donal Ryan, author of THE SPINNING HEART A humane, deeply affecting final novel Daily Mail A delicate, sneakily devastating evocation of place and character. ![]() Our Souls at Night is a perfect tribute to a truly extraordinary writer. The Times So beautiful quietly gripping, full of love, humour and gentle shocks. But it can be real, and in this beautiful novel, we can share it - Ursula K Le Guin Guardian Simple, low-key and absolutely beautiful. Like freedom, also, it's never secure it can't be for ever. Perhaps happiness is less predictable than misery, since it partakes of freedom. Many novels have been about the pursuit of happiness, but this one is luminous with its actual presence. I don't think there's a false word in Kent Haruf's final novel, Our Souls in the Night. One false word can make it all incredible. To ring true, description of even the humblest kind of fulfilment and contentment must be written in awareness of human inadequacy and cruelty and the possibility of illness, ruin, death. ![]()
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