' makes average people in fictional Holt, Colo., interesting, much like legendary Texas writer Horton Foote, finds beauty and sadness in everyday life.' -Kathy Harris, Fort Worth Star-Telegram ' Eventide is admirably austere: Haruf handles even potentially explosive scenes with delicacy.' -Margaret Quamme, Columbus Dispatch flows by us as clear as spring water, proof that truth, like virtue, has its own reward.'-Michael Harris, Los Angeles Times Book Review Scene after scene, from cattle auction to back-booth seduction. 'There's a decency that shines in the very accuracy with which describes the ordinary. In mapping the postage-stamp-size world of Holt, he has limned the loneliness of the people there and their resilience and capacity for hope.'-Michiko Kakutani, New York Times Haruf's understated prose, combined with his emotional wisdom and his easy affection for his characters turns events into affecting drama. ' possesses the haunting appeal of music, the folksy rhythms of an American ballad and the lovely, measured grace of an old hymn. Holt, Colorado a town as fully realized and richly imagined as Faulkner's Jefferson, Mississippi.' -Bill Marvel, Dallas Morning News Spring eventually does reach across the land, and how the people of Eventide get there makes for an engrossing, profoundly moving novel rich in the wisdom, humor, and humanity for which Kent Haruf is justly acclaimed.

But in a small town a great many people encounter one another frequently, often surprisingly, and destinies soon become entwined-for good and for ill-as they confront events that sorely test the limits of their resilience and means, with no refuge available except what their own character and that of others afford them. At school the children of a disabled couple suffer indignities that their parents know all too well in their own lives, with only a social worker to look after them and a violent relative to endanger them further. A young boy living alone with his grandfather helps out a neighbor whose husband, off in Alaska, suddenly isn’t coming home, leaving her to raise their two daughters. When the McPheron brothers see Victoria Roubideaux, the single mother they’d taken in, move from their ranch to begin college, an emptiness opens before them-and for many other townspeople it also promises to be a long, hard winter. One of the most beloved novels in recent years, Plainsong was a best-seller from coast to coast-and now Kent Haruf returns to the High Plains community of Holt, Colorado, with a story of even more masterful authority.

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