Our Souls at Night: A novel

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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, May 26, 2015 - Fiction - 192 pages
NATIONAL BESTSELLER A spare yet eloquent, bittersweet yet inspiring story of a man and a woman who, in advanced age, come together to wrestle with the events of their lives and their hopes for the imminent future.

In the familiar setting of Holt, Colorado, home to all of Kent Haruf's inimitable fiction, Addie Moore pays an unexpected visit to a neighbor, Louis Waters.

Her husband died years ago, as did his wife, and in such a small town they naturally have known of each other for decades; in fact, Addie was quite fond of Louis's wife. His daughter lives hours away, her son even farther, and Addie and Louis have long been living alone in empty houses, the nights so terribly lonely, especially with no one to talk with. But maybe that could change?

As Addie and Louis come to know each other better--their pleasures and their difficulties--a beautiful story of second chances unfolds, making Our Souls at Night the perfect final installment to this beloved writer's enduring contribution to American literature.
 

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Contents

Section 1
3
Section 2
7
Section 3
11
Section 4
15
Section 5
19
Section 6
23
Section 7
25
Section 8
28
Section 23
101
Section 24
107
Section 25
110
Section 26
114
Section 27
123
Section 28
128
Section 29
132
Section 30
136

Section 9
32
Section 10
36
Section 11
43
Section 12
48
Section 13
50
Section 14
54
Section 15
57
Section 16
61
Section 17
67
Section 18
73
Section 19
78
Section 20
82
Section 21
93
Section 22
99
Section 31
138
Section 32
141
Section 33
145
Section 34
148
Section 35
152
Section 36
155
Section 37
159
Section 38
165
Section 39
169
Section 40
171
Section 41
175
Section 42
177
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About the author (2015)

KENT HARUF is the author of five previous novels (and, with the photographer Peter Brown, West of Last Chance). His honors include a Whiting Foundation Writers’ Award, the Mountains & 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. 

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