![]() That's all you really need to know about the plot. Lying down in bed together and you staying the night. I’m talking about getting through the night, she says. One day, Addie approaches Louis and asks if he would consider coming to her house occasionally, to share her bed. In their 70s, they are both widowed and living alone with their fractured pasts. An American voice like no other."Īnd to this, I add the perfection of Our Souls at Night.Īddie Moore and Louis Waters are neighbors, familiar but not friends, in Haruf's conjured Holt, CO. Kent Haruf is the author I take to other countries, pressing his name into the ears of readers not familiar with his work. ![]() And I come full circle, to mourn a cherished voice silenced by disease and death. I weep for all the stories we will never witness. I weep for aging bodies, for small, mean minds that do such damage, for the elderly, forgotten and alone. Even now, thinking of endings, of the ending of this book, the ending of an author I adore, I weep. I read Our Souls at Night in one sitting and wept in the final pages. Our Souls at Night is simply, profoundly, an exquisite homage to love. Despite knowing his life was coming to a sooner end than it should, or perhaps because of this, he created a story about finding love in the final chapter. Kent Haruf wrote Our Souls at Night under a death sentence. Haruf lived with his wife, Cathy, in Salida, Colorado, with their three daughters. Holt is loosely based on Yuma, Colorado, an early residence of Haruf in the 1980s. In 2006, Haruf was awarded the Dos Passos Prize for Literature.Īll of his novels are set in the fictional town of Holt, Colorado. His novel, The Tie That Binds, received a Whiting Foundation Award and a special citation from the Pen/Hemingway Foundation. Plainsong was also a finalist for the 1999 National Book Award. Haruf is the author of Plainsong, which received the Mountains and Plains Booksellers Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the Maria Thomas Award in Fiction, and The New Yorker Book Award. For two years, he taught English in Turkey with the Peace Corps and his other jobs have included a chicken farm in Colorado, a construction site in Wyoming, a rehabilitation hospital in Colorado, a hospital in Arizona, a library in Iowa, an alternative high school in Wisconsin, and universities in Nebraska and Illinois. He received his Bachelors of Arts in literature from Nebraska Wesleyan University in 1965 and his Masters of Fine Arts from the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa in 1973. ![]() The next morning, Louis gives the valet a big tip and they drive home to Holt.or Florence, where most of the filming is being done.Kent Haruf was born in eastern Colorado. Now are you going to kiss me in this big hotel bed or not? This is just what I want and tomorrow I want our own bed again.Įverything in its time and place, he said. I'm about as happy as I can be, she said. After the play, they return to the Brown Palace Bar for a drink, then go upstairs. They went down and ate in the restaurant and then came back upstairs and Addie put on one of the expensive dresses she'd bought just to wear in Denver.įrom there, they head to the Denver Performing Arts Complex earlier in the book, they'd discussed how the Denver Center for the Performing Arts had put on a play about two ranchers (based on another book by Haruf). Their room was on the third floor and they could look over the railing down to the open courtyard below and see the piano player and people sitting at tables taking tea and drinking cocktails and the waiters moving back and forth from the bar and as the night approached the guests going into the bar or into the restaurant with its white tablecloths and gleaming glasses and silverwear. As their relationship progresses, Haruf writes:Īnd once they stayed overnight in Denver as she had before at the great old beautiful Brown Palace Hotel with its open court and lobby and the piano player who played all afternoon and evening. ![]() ![]() In the film, Redford plays widower Louis Waters, who's approached by Addie Moore (Jane Fonda) with an unusual proposition: She wants him to spend the night with her so she has someone to talk to. Ours Souls at Night has been filming in Colorado for more than a month, and the book features a scene at the Palace. All any of the doormen and hostesses (the eyes and ears of any hotel, of course) knew was that a Netflix movie was being filmed at the hotel this morning. Though the hotel was mum on details, it's safe to say that Robert Redford and Jane Fonda were filming scenes for the Netflix-produced film Our Souls at Night, which is based on the Kent Haruf book set in the fictional small town of Holt, Colorado, at the Brown Palace on Monday, October 17.įilm crews were parked along Tremont Place and 17th Street, and camera equipment littered the lobby. ![]()
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