Plainsong
by Kent Haruf
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- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- like new/like new
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Orange, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
Signed by author on title page, in full dust jacket, bright and tight interior.
From his characters unsettled lives emerge a vision of life and of the town and landscape that bind them together
Synopsis
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.Utterly true to the rhythms and patterns of life, Plainsong is a novel to care about, believe in, and learn from.From the Hardcover edition.
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- Bookseller
- Bound2please Books B2plz
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 111223CC
- Title
- Plainsong
- Author
- Kent Haruf
- Format/Binding
- Silver lettering on grey cloth spine, grey boards
- Book Condition
- New like new
- Jacket Condition
- like new
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Knopf
- Date Published
- 2000
- Pages
- 301
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- small-town intrigue
- Bookseller catalogs
- Contemporary Fiction;
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