Plainsong

b>With an introduction by Peter Carey/b>br>br>I suppose it is crazy. I don't know. I don't even care. But that girl needs somebody . . . And you old solitary bastards need somebody too. Somebody or something besides an old red cow to care about and worry over.Set in Kent Haruf's fictional landscape of Holt County, Colorado, Plainsong is a story of simple lives told with extraordinary empathy. 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. Whilst Tom's boys find their way forward without their mother, 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 of our time, Plainsong is an undeniable classic that explores the grace and hope of every human life and mankind's infinite capacity for love.

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Kent Haruf's prose murmurs a haunting melody through the intertwined lives of a Colorado community. It is a simple tale of life, death, love and hatred The Times

Product details

• Authors: Kent Haruf, Haruf Kent
• Assisted by: Peter Carey (Introduction), Carey Peter (Introduction)
• Publisher: Picador Uk
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.10.2015
• EAN: 9781447289517
• ISBN: 978-1-4472-8951-7
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 197 mm x 21 mm
• Series: Picador Classic; Picador Classics; Plainsong; Picador Classic; Plainsong; Lied der Weite / Plainsong; Picador Collection
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Fiction > Narrative literature > Contemporary literature (from 1945); Colorado, FICTION / Family Life / General, Narrative theme: Interior life, Family life fiction, Narrative theme: Death, grief, loss, Narrative theme: Coming of age, Narrative theme: Sense of place, Small Town & Rural