Plainsong: A Hauntingly Beautiful Tale of Intertwined Lives in Small-Town America
Kent Haruf
Oct 2015 · Picador Classic Book 36 · Pan Macmillan
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Plainsong, set in Kent Haruf's fictional Holt County, Colorado, is an unforgettable classic, exploring the grace and hope of every human life, and our boundless capacity for love.
‘So delicate and lovely that it has the power to exalt the reader’ – The New York Times
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 essential read from the Picador Collection, a curated list of era-defining modern classics.
'Beautifully crafted, alive and quietly magnificent' – Roddy Doyle, bestselling author of The Commitments
‘So delicate and lovely that it has the power to exalt the reader’ – The New York Times
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 essential read from the Picador Collection, a curated list of era-defining modern classics.
'Beautifully crafted, alive and quietly magnificent' – Roddy Doyle, bestselling author of The Commitments
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Loved this book, the characters and how their individual stories intertwinned. Will be downloading the rest of the trilogy.
About the author
Kent Haruf's honours include a Whiting Foundation Award and a special citation from the PEN/Hemingway Foundation. 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. Haruf's novel, Benediction, was shortlisted for the Folio prize. He died in 2014 at the age of seventy-one.
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