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Plain Language

Plain Language

Plain Language Paperback - 2003

by Barbara Wright

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Set on the dusty plains of eastern Colorado in the 1930s, "Plain Language" is a beautifully told tale of love, hardship, and survival. A powerful portrait of a man and woman fighting for their land--and their love--against tremendous odds, Wright's story brings to mind the novels of Willa Cather and John Steinbeck.

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Touchstone, 2003. Paperback. Like New. Pages are clean and are not marred by notes or folds of any kind. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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  • Title Plain Language
  • Author Barbara Wright
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Original
  • Condition New
  • Pages 352
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Touchstone, Old Tappan, New Jersey, U.S.A.
  • Publication date 2003
  • Bookseller's Inventory # G0743230205I2N00
  • ISBN 9780743230209 / 0743230205
  • Weight 0.95 lbs (0.43 kg)
  • Dimensions 8 x 5.2 x 1 in (20.32 x 13.21 x 2.54 cm)
  • Category Fiction - General
  • Library of Congress subjects Domestic fiction, Ranch life
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 00000000
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC
  • Quantity available 1

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From the publisher

Virginia Mendenhall, a Quaker from North Carolina, is thirty-three years old when she travels to the arid plains of eastern Colorado in the mid-1930s to marry Alfred Bowen, ten years her senior. They have met only twice and have come to love each other through letters. Now, on an isolated ranch in the Dust Bowl, they must adjust to the harsh ranching life and the dangers of an untamed landscape, as well as the differences between them.
With an extended drought worsening the impact of the Depression in the West, neighbors turn against neighbors, and secrets from Alfred and Virginia's pasts come back to haunt them. But it is the arrival of Virginia's troubled brother on the ranch that sets off a chain of events with life-and-death consequences for them all.
Plain Language is a beautifully told tale of a man and woman fighting against tremendous odds for their land -- and their love.

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  • Kirkus Reviews, 02/01/2003, Page 181

About the author

Barbara Wright, a novelist and screenwriter,
lives in Kansas City, Missour

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