{"product_id":"our-souls-at-night","title":"Our Souls at Night","description":"\u003ctable align=\"center\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\"\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"productDetailSmallElements\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBiographical Note\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eKENT HARUF\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of five previous novels (and, with the photographer Peter Brown, \u003ci\u003eWest of Last Chance\u003c\/i\u003e). His honors include a Whiting Foundation Writers' Award, the Mountains \u0026amp; 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. He died in November 2014, at the age of seventy-one. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eA BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: \u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Denver Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"More Winesburg that Mayberry, Holt and its residents are shaped by physical solitude and emotional reticence. . . . Haruf's fiction ratifies ordinary, nonflashy decency, but he also knows that even the most placid lives are more complicated than they appear from the outside. . . . The novel is a plainspoken, vernacular farewell.\" --Catherine Holmes, \n\u003ci\u003eThe Charleston Post and Courier\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\"A marvelous addition to his oeuvre. . . . spare but eloquent, bittersweet yet hopeful.\" --Kurt Rabin, \n\u003ci\u003eThe Fredericksburg Freelance-Star\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Lateness--and second chances--have always been a theme for Haruf. But here, in a book about love and the aftermath of grief, in his final hours, he has produced his most intense expression of that yet. . . . Packed into less than 200 pages are all the issues late life provokes.\" --John Freeman, \n\u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\"A fitting close to a storied career, a beautiful rumination on aging, accommodation, and our need to connect. . . . As a meditation on life and forthcoming death, Haruf couldn't have done any better. He has given us a powerful, pared-down story of two characters who refuse to go gentle into that good night.\" --Lynn Rosen, \n\u003ci\u003eThe Philadelphia Enquirer\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\"A delicate, sneakily devastating evocation of place and character. . . . Haruf's story accumulates resonance through carefully chosen details; the novel is quiet but never complacent.\" -- \n\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Elegiac, mournful and compassionate. . .a triumphant end to an inspiring literary career [and] a reminder of a loss on the American cultural landscape, as well as a parting gift from a master storyteller.\" --William J. Cobb, \n\u003ci\u003eThe Dallas Morning News\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\"A fine and poignant novel that demonstrates that our desire to love and to be loved does not dissolve with age. . . . The story speeds along, almost as if it's a page-turning mystery.\" --Joseph Peschel, \n\u003ci\u003eThe St. Louis Post-Dispatch\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"By turns amusing and sad, skipping-down-the-sidewalk light and pensive. . . . I recommend reading it straight through, then sitting in quiet reflection of beautiful literary art.\" --Fred Ohles, \n\u003ci\u003eThe Lincoln Journal Star\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\"Haruf is never sentimental, and the ending--multiple twists packed into the last twenty pages--is gritty, painful and utterly human. . . . His novels are imbued with an affection and understanding that transform the most mundane details into poetry. Like the friendly light shining from Addie's window, Haruf's final novel is a beacon of hope; he is sorely missed.\" --Francesca Wade, \n\u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Haruf was knows as a great writer and teacher whose work will endure. . . . The cadence of this book is soft and gentle, filled with shy emotion, as tentative as a young person's first kiss--timeless in its beauty. . . . Addie and Louis find a type of love that, as our society ages, ever more people in the baby boom generation may find is the only kind of love that matters.\" --Jim Ewing, \n\u003ci\u003eThe Jackson Clarion-Ledger\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\"There is so much wisdom in this beautifully pared-back and gentle book. . . a small, quiet gem, written in English so plain that it sparkles.\" --Anne Susskind, \n\u003ci\u003eThe Sydney Morning Herald\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"His great subject was the struggle of decency against small-mindedness, and his rare gift was to make sheer decency a moving subject. . . . [This] novel runs on the dogged insistence that simple elements carry depths, and readers will find much to be grateful for.\" --Joan Silber, \n\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\"In a fitting and gorgeous end to a body of work that prizes resilience above all else, Haruf has bequeathed readers a map charting a future that is neither easy nor painless, but it's also not something we have to bear alone.\" -- \n\u003ci\u003eEsquire\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Utterly charming [and] distilled to elemental purity. . . . such a tender, carefully polished work that it seems like a blessing we had no right to expect.\" --Ron Charles, \n\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\"Haruf spent a life making art from our blind collisions, and \n\u003ci\u003eOur Souls at Night \u003c\/i\u003eis a fitting finish.\" --John Reimringer, \n\u003ci\u003eThe Minneapolis Star Tribune\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\"Haruf once again banishes doubts. Our souls can surprise us. Beneath the surface of reticent lives--and of Haruf's calm prose--they prove unexpectedly brave.\" --Ann Hulbert, \n\u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Blunt, textured, and dryly humorous. . . this quietly elegiac novel caps a fine, late-blooming and tenacious writing career. . . . Haruf's gift is to make hay of the unexpected, and it feels like a mercy. . . . This is a novel for just after sunset on a summer's eve, when the sky is still light and there is much to see, if you are looking.\" --Wingate Packard, \n\u003ci\u003eThe Seattle Times\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\"A parting gift [and] a reminder of how profoundly we will miss Holt and its people, and Kent Haruf's extraordinary writing.\" --Sandra Dallas, \n\u003ci\u003eThe Denver Post\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\"Short, spare and moving... \n\u003ci\u003eOur Souls at Night \u003c\/i\u003eis already creating a stir.\" --Jennifer Maloney, \n\u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations:\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003eWilson Fiction Catalog\u003c\/span\u003e 04\/11\/2019 (EAN 9781101911921, Paperback)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003eAudio File\u003c\/span\u003e 08\/01\/2015 pg. 39 (EAN 9781101923450, Compact Disc) - *Starred Review\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003eLibrary Journal Prepub Alert\u003c\/span\u003e 01\/01\/2015 pg. 70 (EAN 9781101875896, Hardcover)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/span\u003e 03\/02\/2015 (EAN 9781101875896, Hardcover) - *Starred Review\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/span\u003e 03\/15\/2015 (EAN 9781101875896, Hardcover)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/span\u003e 04\/01\/2015 pg. 79 (EAN 9781101875896, Hardcover) - *Starred Review\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003eBooklist\u003c\/span\u003e 04\/15\/2015 pg. 28 (EAN 9781101875896, Hardcover) - *Starred Review\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003eNew Yorker (The)\u003c\/span\u003e 06\/08\/2015 pg. 109 (EAN 9781101875896, Hardcover)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/span\u003e 06\/07\/2015 pg. 11 (EAN 9781101875896, Hardcover)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/span\u003e 06\/14\/2015 pg. 22 (EAN 9781101875896, Hardcover)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/span\u003e 01\/01\/2015 (EAN 9781101875896, Hardcover)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003eWilson Fiction Catalog\u003c\/span\u003e 04\/11\/2019 (EAN 9781101875896, Hardcover)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Haruf, Kent\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Vintage\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePub Date:\u003c\/b\u003e 2016-06-28\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC:\u003c\/b\u003e Fiction \/ Literary|Fiction \/ Family Life \/ General|Fiction \/ Romance \/ General\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSubjects:\u003c\/b\u003e Grandparent and child|Widowers|Loneliness|Memory|Colorado|FICTION \/ Family Life|FICTION \/ Romance \/ General|Domestic fiction|Love stories|FICTION \/ Literary\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.45 lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781101911921\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eASIN:\u003c\/b\u003e -\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSKU:\u003c\/b\u003e SP-9781101911921\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52374483370265,"sku":"SP-9781101911921","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0913\/0380\/5209\/files\/9781101911921_spiral.png?v=1778474693","url":"https:\/\/westbindery.com\/products\/our-souls-at-night","provider":"West Bindery","version":"1.0","type":"link"}