![]() ![]() 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. * Boston Globe * 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. * Mail on Sunday * 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. ![]() Niall Williams * Sunday Times * This is a novel that succeeds in affirming life without ducking its hardships. peopled with individuals whose ordinary lives are invested with epic quality and truth. ![]() Michiko Kakutani * New York Times * Wonderful. Possesses the haunting appeal of music, the folksy rhythms of an American tale and the lovely, measured grace of an old hymn. ![]()
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