- Widowers, Fiction, Loneliness, Grandparent and child
"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"--
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Earnest, contemplative, classical in form and intimate.
- earnestironic
- contemplativerelentless
- classical in formformally daring
- intimateepic
- gravecomic
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About the book
- Author
- Kent Haruf
- First published
- 2015
- Pages
- 192
- Publisher
- Random House Audio, Knopf, Vintage
- Editions
- 10
- Language
- German, English
- ISBN
- 9783257069860
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First sentence
“Und dann kam der Tag, an dem Addie Moore bei Louis Waters klingelte.”
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