Kent Haruf is the author of six novels (and, with the photographer Peter Brown, West of Last Chance). His honours include a Whiting Foundation Writers' Award, the Mountains & Plains Booksellers Award, the Wallace Stegner Award, and a special citation from the PEN/Hemingway Foundation; he was also a finalist for the National Book Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and The New Yorker Book Award. Benediction was shortlisted for the Folio Prize. He died in November 2014, at the age of seventy-one.
Elderly widow Addie Moore pays a visit to her aging widower neighbor, Louis Waters. They were never close, just knew each other peripherally, which makes the reason for this social call all the more intriguing. Addie would like to know if Louis is interested in sleeping with her. Now, now, this scenario was conceived by the late, great Kent Haruf—Our Souls at Night is no 50 Shades of Geriatric Grey. Set in the same fictional Colorado town as his National Book Award-nominated Plainsong, a town with its fair share of gossips, Addie and Louis embark on an unlikely friendship, an antidote to the loneliness they most exquisitely felt at night. As this friendship deepens, it is tested by said busybodies and meddling family members, plot points that almost distract from what makes this novel such a fitting and sweet swan song. Our Souls at Night was inspired, in part, by Haruf’s own marriage and the intimate, late-night conversations he and his wife relished, just like Addie and Louis. And just like Addie and Louis, Haruf proved that you’re never too old to reinvent yourself, take risks, find love, and write a great novel. --Erin Kodicek
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kindle推薦閱讀時長一個半小時,想來應該是比較容易理解的小說。每天那麼多的快速閱讀量,讓我在小說開始的慢節奏幾乎想要放棄它。在傑米來瞭之後,感覺上可能是一個美好的夕陽紅的故事,反而心生瞭一些希望。我們在現在的生活中存在著那麼多的條條框框,那麼多在意的世俗眼光...
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評分是本贈書,文字簡短和乾淨,兩個多小時就能讀完。不是很熟悉的作者,卻是本作者的遺作,作品有著老年人該有的閱曆和深沉,但文字依然能如少年般純粹。全書讀下來有種讀一本精簡版的《霍亂時期的愛情》的錯覺,關於老年人的情感、社會的道德準則、傢庭關係的維係。全書主要由簡...
評分朋友被封麵和介紹所吸引,感覺和《島上書店》裏虛構的《遲暮花開》所述主題類似,遂在書店買下瞭此書,而我則是後來在圖書館看到瞭此書,遂藉來翻翻。朋友說,就喜歡這種排版的書,每頁的字數少,間距大,翻起來特彆爽,一個下午就能翻完。確實如此,而且書中並沒有什麼情節可...
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簡單的敘述,簡單的故事,並非簡單的孤獨與慰籍,而是揭示齣瞭平凡人不簡單的人性。
評分白姨藉給我的書,實話講結尾有一點點莫名其妙的感覺
評分靈魂是一種怎樣的狀態呢?或許應該是輕盈、坦誠的。兩位老人在夜晚交談,將過去的一切,連同那些曾經碾過心靈的痛楚也和盤托齣,不加修飾。故事就是這樣開始的——令人稍稍有些許慶幸的是,故事也是這樣結束的。Kent Haruf的語言非常平實雋永,用詞很簡單(華盛頓郵報的書評裏有提到本書裏and的運用,認為這是an assumption that we‘re already involved in the lives of these people)。聯想到這是他的遺作,總有天鵝詠嘆之感:“我想說的,就是這些瞭。” (另,也讓我想到卡波特的草竪琴和麥剋林恩的大河戀,如果能寫齣書評的話想多說說……這是在國慶擁擠的車站給我帶來無限慰藉的一本書。)
評分艾迪的兒子真是討人厭啊,艾迪這個人物也不討喜,她缺乏勇氣捍衛愛情。這個故事沒什麼特彆的,比較溫吞,也可能是我還沒達到可以去欣賞這個故事的年紀
評分艾迪的兒子真是討人厭啊,艾迪這個人物也不討喜,她缺乏勇氣捍衛愛情。這個故事沒什麼特彆的,比較溫吞,也可能是我還沒達到可以去欣賞這個故事的年紀
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