Late Afternoon, by Kent Haruf

Late Afternoon, by Kent Haruf
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After his previous book published in Spain: The Song of the Plain, Kent Haruf returns to the assault on the bookstores with this novel that again addresses an intimacy of private lives, suddenly abandoned in the middle of the moor, among the valley of dry tears, which has been the space of his The Plain Trilogy, one of the most beautiful literary compositions of the late author.

Again we travel to Holt for this second installment. An invented place where each inhabitant seems to have a tremendous story to tell, or if not tell, at least manifest through a literary introspection that ends up splashing any conscience on its most human side.

On this occasion the actors are the McPherons and several other inhabitants of this special town, turned into a kind of purgatory in which God tests the resilience, patience and soul of so many characters exposed to the crudest vicissitudes.

It is not that each of the protagonists who are intertwining and branching off the story (while downloading the argument) must face great causes or transcendental blogs. What of the inhabitants of this town supposedly based in Colorado is to face an alienating destiny from the detail of the most empty existence.

The space accompanies. Holt is a town where any night owl could come to spend their last days of detoxification after a hectic life, or where the world's most wanted spy could hide from the world. Holt's days are slow and heavy, as are his sleepless, sleepless nights.

And in that, in the detail, in the assumed fatalism, in the tangible feeling of the heavy days that pass one after another with the same pause, cadence and cycle, we discover the anecdotally human, the fundamentally spiritual.

It could be thought that Haruf's intention is to present life as an arid place. But in the same way that a child can occupy his most entertaining hours around an anthill, the inhabitants of Holt cultivate their soul, they investigate its recesses without the peremptory sensation of time. Once you have a slow life ahead of you, sadness, nostalgia, self-denial or solidarity take on a different weight, much lighter, much more in line with a time made up of experiences instead of pressing seconds ...

You can now buy the novel At the end of the afternoon, the new book by Kent Haruf and second in the Plain Trilogy, here, with a discount for accesses from this blog:

Late Afternoon, by Kent Haruf
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