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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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Barbara Wright is the author of Crow, Easy Money, and Plain Language, which won a Spur Award from Western Writers of America. In her spare time, she likes to play tennis and jazz piano. She lives in Denver, Colorado with her husband Frank Gay.
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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.
Testo aggiuntivo
Art Corriveau author of Housewrights The West brought hauntingly to life. This human-scale love story of an unlikely family's struggle with love, loyalty, and loss seems all the more epic when set against the immense backdrop of Colorado prairie and sky.
