You Have Left the Planned Route | Melissa Firman

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Book Review: Our Souls at Night, by Kent Haruf

Book Review: Our Souls at Night, by Kent Haruf

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Sep 23, 2015
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Book Review: Our Souls at Night, by Kent Haruf
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Our Souls at Night, by Kent Haruf
Alfred A. Knopf 
2015 
179 pages

Some authors have a talent of using exactly the right prose and cadence thereof to evoke an atmosphere that complements the story itself. Kent Haruf’s final novel, published posthumously after his death last November, is that kind of book.

With both of their spouses deceased, Addie Moore and …

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