![]() They are the parents of the young boys Rae and Richie. ![]() Next, the novel introduces Luther and Betty Wallace, a couple barely scraping by on disability and food stamps. Raymond and Victoria are devastated and lonely. Tragedy strikes the family when an enraged bull kills Harold. Raymond and Harold provide them with food, shelter, and financial support, and they come to think of each other as family. The brothers meet a young African-American mother and her daughter, Victoria and Katie Roubideaux, who left their home in Denver to get away from a bad partner. Raymond’s past is barely mentioned but involves heartbreak, not unlike his brother’s. ![]() When Harold was younger, the girl he loved left him. Brothers, cattle ranchers, and single, they both have gone through a heartbreak earlier in life. The story first introduces the characters, Raymond and Harold McPheron. ![]() It follows his 1999 work, Plainsong, also based in Holt. ![]() The novel falls into the “slice of life” genre, focusing on the ordinary (or seemingly so) facets of existence in small-town America. The novel is distinguished by its emphasis on characterization rather than plot, examining how the townspeople are entangled in each other’s perceptions, beliefs, narratives, and moral problems. A novel about the contingency and instability of modern identity, American writer Kent Haruf’s Eventide (2005) profiles several residents of the fictional town Holt, Colorado over part of a year. ![]()
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