There is little to be gained from getting overly attached to source material.
When a story told first in one form is adapted into another, it becomes a different creature — in the details and sometimes the broad outlines, too.
The book is a quiet, gentle thing, and it takes its time, layering in the details of Addie and Louis’s pasts and presents.
Each has been lonely since long before their spouses died: his marriage marred by a scandalous affair, hers numbed by the death of a child.
When Addie’s young grandson, Jamie, comes to stay with her, he’s lonely at first, too, and scared of the dark.
Persons:
Kent Haruf’s, Addie, Louis, gingerly, Addie’s, Jamie, Emily Mann, Lucy Simon, Carmel Dean, Susan Birkenhead, Susan H, Schulman, Lauren Ward, Stephen Bogardus
Organizations:
Berkshire, Broadway
Locations:
Stockbridge , Mass, “