Hello Lonesome

Each of the three intercut stories in Hello Lonesome—all dealing with characters trying to overcome solitude—begins promisingly enough. Eventually, though, they all run aground on questionable decisions, ranging from minor annoyance to insurmountable obstacle. A mild touch of sentimentality in the best of these, about a potential May-December romance between a widow and a neighbor, is largely forgivable, but a midpoint revelation elsewhere that sends a tale of youthful amour into dour dawdling leaves you with a depressingly morbid aftertaste.

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