Plainsong
Haruf, Kent2015
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Total copies: 1
Set in Kent Haruf's fictional landscape of Holt County, Colorado, this tale brings together the stories of a high school teacher raising his two boys alone, a pregnant teenager with nowhere to live and two elderly bachelors farming on the outskirts of town. Set in Kent Haruf's fictional landscape of Holt County, Colorado, Plainsong is a story of simple lives told with extraordinary empathy.With an introduction by Peter Carey, author of True History of the Kelly Gang.Tom Guthrie is struggling to bring up his two young sons alone and, in the same town, school girl Victoria Roubideaux is pregnant and homeless.Brothers Harold and Raymond McPheron - gentle, solitary, gruff and unpolished - agree to take Victoria in, unaware that their lives will change forever.A novel of haunting beauty from one of America's greatest writers, Plainsong is an undeniable classic that explores the grace and hope of every human life and mankind's infinite capacity for love.
Main title:
Plainsong / Kent Haruf.
Author:
Haruf, Kent, author
Work:
Edition:
[New] edition / with an introduction by Peter Carey.
Imprint:
London : Picador, 2015.
Collation:
xi, 287 pages ; 20 cm.
Series title:
Notes:
Previous edition: New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999.
ISBN:
9781447289517 (pbk)9781447289524 (ePub ebook)
Dewey class:
813.54
LC class:
PS3558.A716
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
771044