Kent Haruf staat bekend om zijn romans die zich afspelen in het fictieve stadje Holt, Colorado. Zijn stijl kenmerkt zich door een rustige, maar indringende focus op gewone mensen en hun levens. Haruf legt meesterlijk thema's als gemeenschap, verlies en veerkracht vast met ingetogen precisie. Zijn werken bieden diepgaande inzichten in het Amerikaanse Midden-Westen en de bewoners ervan, waarbij vaak hun stille kracht en onderlinge afhankelijkheid wordt benadrukt.
Die achtzigjährige Edith Goodnough wurde verhaftet. Ihr Nachbar weiß um Ediths Lebenstragödien und die kleinen Lichtblicke, die vielleicht unweigerlich zu diesem Januar 1977 führten: die entbehrungsreiche Kindheit, der Tod der Mutter, der durch einen Unfall abhängige, stets wütende Vater. Wahrhaftig und einfühlsam entführt Kent Haruf abermals in ein Leben, in dem es an dem meisten fehlt, in dem es Herz und Beharrlichkeit braucht, um die Geschenke darin zu entdecken.
A story about growing old with grace. Addie Moore and Louis Waters have been neighbours for years. Now they both live alone, their houses empty of family, their quiet nights solitary. Then one evening Addie pays Louis a visit. Their brave adventures form the beating heart of Our Souls at Night, Kent Haruf's exquisite final novel.
Former high-school football hero Jack Burdette returns to his hometown eight years after he had left, but his one-time pranks and high-spirited high jinks have turned into crimes--with terrifying consequences for the people of Holt County
A heartstrong story of family and romance, tribulation and tenacity, set on the High Plains east of Denver. In the small town of Holt, Colorado, a high school teacher is confronted with raising his two boys alone after their mother retreats first to the bedroom, then altogether. A teenage girl—her father long since disappeared, her mother unwilling to have her in the house—is pregnant, alone herself, with nowhere to go. And out in the country, two brothers, elderly bachelors, work the family homestead, the only world they've ever known. From these unsettled lives emerges a vision of life, and of the town and landscape that bind them together—their fates somehow overcoming the powerful circumstances of place and station, their confusion, curiosity, dignity and humor intact and resonant. As the milieu widens to embrace fully four generations, Kent Haruf displays an emotional and aesthetic authority to rival the past masters of a classic American tradition. Utterly true to the rhythms and patterns of life, Plainsong is a novel to care about, believe in, and learn from.
