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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I stumbled on Kent Haruf's books a few years ago, loved them. They are all set in a small town on the eastern plains of Colorado. One, I forget which, was made into a movie (Jane Fonda and Robert Redford)--a widow visits her widower neighbor and says she misses having a companion to sleep with and proposes they do this--not for sex, but because of loneliness. Also, the characters reappear (kind of like Elizabeth Strout's books).

But I don't think I could pick a "best" work of fiction.

Another recommendation is anything by Alice McDermott. Irish people in New York, books span the 1950s to the present time, kind of playing off the histories of one generation and the current experience of their children or grandchildren. Another writer with lovely, simple, clear, yet vivid writing.

I went through a bunch of Edith Wharton's books years ago. Utterly depressing though.

I absolutely loved the Kent Haruf trilogy.  Well, mostly the first 2 but they were so beautiful they make up for a slightly lackluster 3rd.
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