Plainsong Plainsong

Plainsong

    • 4.3 • 229 Ratings
    • $12.99
    • $12.99

Publisher Description

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.

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
1999
September 21
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
320
Pages
PUBLISHER
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
SELLER
Penguin Random House LLC
SIZE
1.1
MB

Customer Reviews

trumpet tech ,

Plainsong by Kent Haruf

Very enjoybable read. Really gets you involved with the characters. He is right on with the bachelor brothers. All the characters are real. A feel good book that tugs at your emotions to laugh or cry.

MrsLevel ,

Amazing characters

The characters were completely brought to life. However, I feel the book just stopped at the end with no tidy closure for me.

abreebrown ,

Not worth the read

Very inappropriate book

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