Plainsong

· Sold by Vintage
4.2
32 reviews
Ebook
320
Pages
Eligible

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National Book Award Finalist

A heartstrong story of family and romance, tribulation and tenacity, set on the High Plains east of Denver.

In the small town of Holt, Colorado, a high school teacher is confronted with raising his two boys alone after their mother retreats first to the bedroom, then altogether. A teenage girl—her father long since disappeared, her mother unwilling to have her in the house—is pregnant, alone herself, with nowhere to go. And out in the country, two brothers, elderly bachelors, work the family homestead, the only world they've ever known. From these unsettled lives emerges a vision of life, and of the town and landscape that bind them together—their fates somehow overcoming the powerful circumstances of place and station, their confusion, curiosity, dignity and humor intact and resonant. As the milieu widens to embrace fully four generations, Kent Haruf displays an emotional and aesthetic authority to rival the past masters of a classic American tradition.

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4.2
32 reviews
christy keener
February 4, 2019
Disappointed in this book. The reoccuring theme was sex. Everyone was doing it, if they were too young then they were watching with violent consequences. The author should decide if he wants to write a trashy young-adult book or a story of people, support, and commumity. Completely different genre. I was disappointed and will not read another from this author.
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Melissa Lundeby
October 29, 2013
Both Plainsong and Eventide are two of the most beautifully wirtten stories that I have ever read. I cannot wait to read the book thaqt comes after both of these and completes everyones story. Hurry up Kent!
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Connor Bartel
December 2, 2016
This is so dirty it has the F word (lost count how many times) but it's still good
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About the author

KENT HARUF is the author of five previous novels (and, with the photographer Peter Brown, West of Last Chance). His honors include a Whiting Foundation Writers’ Award, the Mountains & Plains Booksellers Award, the Wallace Stegner Award, and a special citation from the PEN/Hemingway Foundation; he was also a finalist for the National Book Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and the New Yorker Book Award. He died in November 2014, at the age of seventy-one.

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