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Plainsong
Kent Haruf
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Description for Plainsong
Paperback. 'Plainsong is nothing short of a revelation' Richard Russo Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 19. Weight in Grams: 220.
Set in Kent Haruf's fictional landscape of Holt County, Colorado, Plainsong is a story of simple lives told with extraordinary empathy. Tom Guthrie is struggling to bring up his two young sons alone. In the same town, school girl Victoria Roubideaux finds herself pregnant and homeless. Whilst Tom’s sons find their way forward without their mother, quiet and gentle Harold and Raymond McPheron agree to take Victoria in, unaware that their lives are about to change forever.
A novel of haunting beauty from one of America's greatest writers of our time, Plainsong explores the grace and hope of every ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Pan Macmillan
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781447240440
SKU
V9781447240440
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Ref
99-1
About Kent Haruf
Kent Haruf's honours include a Whiting Foundation Award and a special citation from the PEN/Hemingway Foundation. His novel Plainsong won the Mountains & Plains Booksellers Award and was a finalist for the National Book Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and the New Yorker Book Award. Benediction was shortlisted for the Folio Prize. He died in November 2014, at ... Read more
Reviews for Plainsong
Perfectly formed, beautifully executed.
Mariella Frostrup Beautifully crafted, alive and quietly magnificent. I read it in one mesmerising sitting. I had no choice; it wouldn't let me go.
Roddy Doyle Plainsong is nothing short of a revelation. I don't expect to read a better novel this year. Or next, for that matter.
Richard Russo
So delicate ... Read more
Mariella Frostrup Beautifully crafted, alive and quietly magnificent. I read it in one mesmerising sitting. I had no choice; it wouldn't let me go.
Roddy Doyle Plainsong is nothing short of a revelation. I don't expect to read a better novel this year. Or next, for that matter.
Richard Russo
So delicate ... Read more