Set in Colorado this
is a tale of small-town mid-west America – and one of the things I
found interesting is I found it difficult to place when it in time,
the conservative attitudes of a small-town could be contemporary or
could be 1950 – only small clues, like the newspapers the boys
deliver being dropped off by train perhaps pointing to the later.
That might be the success of the integrity of the world that Haruf
invokes – it becomes complete in itself.
There are hard
situations but a kindness and humanity between people that redeems
them – people living in the more or less comfortable ruts of their
lives have eyes opened by mutual encounter to a richer version of
existence. It is a charmingly hopefully tale.
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