One of The Best Books of The Year: Chicago Tribune, Entertainment Weekly, The Plain Dealer, and Rocky Mountain NewsKent Haruf, award-winning, bestselling author of Plainsong returns to the high-plains town of Holt, Colorado, with a novel of masterful authority. The aging McPheron brothers are learning to live without Victoria Roubideaux, the single mother they took in and who has now left … they took in and who has now left their ranch to start college. A lonely young boy stoically cares for his grandfather while a disabled couple tries to protect their a violent relative. As these lives unfold and intersect, Eventide unveils the immemorial truths about human beings: their fragility and resilience, their selfishness and goodness, and their ability to find family in one another.
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What I thought would happen, didn’t.
What I didn’t even bother to think would happen, did.
Haruf wrote this story in little vignettes. It was like walking along the streets of Holt as a peeping Tom and the reader gets to take a peek into each character and what’s going on with them, and then the next chapter, you move on to another …
I read Plainsong years ago and then life got busy and most of my reading was work related so I never read Eventide. I recently found a copy on my son’s (the doctor) bookshelf. It took me right back to the small town of Holt, Colorado and I reconnected immediately! Some characters and settings just stay with you for a long time. Kent Haruf gives us …
Loved it. Setting in area I grew up in so I recognized some of the characters. Just a good story.
This is the continuation of Plainsong- I enjoyed it, but liked Plainsong better. I love Kent Haruf’s small town Colorado setting and the gentle way he tells the story.
I loved this book. I love anything written by Ken Harff. His prose is so very beautiful.
Haruf makes normal daily living in the slow paced and realistic world of eastern Colorado inspiring and thoughtful. Wish he had written more before his death. He is an original. Much like Wendell Berry and his Port Washington series.
I love all of his books. They are gentle and storytelling at its best.
One of my favorite authors. I like to call his genre ” bad things happening to good people”. I’ve read all his books in one sitting, cover to cover.
One of my favorite books. It is lovely and sweet.
Writing that gets to the essence of human nature, and small town life.
This is a follow up to “Plainsong “. A touching, beautiful story by the late author. I loved both books.
It’s been awhile since I read this, but Kent Haruf was a great author whose stories are not easily dismissed or forgotten. I have read a couple more of his books besides Eventide and have enjoyed them all equally. True-to-life characters and storylines which reflect hard-scrabble existences and situations few of us experience, if we are …
Nobody did it as well as Ken Haruf.