An edition of Plainsong (1999)

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An edition of Plainsong (1999)

Plainsong

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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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Cover of: Plainsong
Plainsong
2004, Alfred A. Knopf
in English
Cover of: Plainsong
Plainsong
2001, Picador
in English
Cover of: Plainsong
Plainsong
2001, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Electronic resource in English
Cover of: Plainsong
Plainsong
2000, Wheeler Pub.
in English
Cover of: Plainsong
Plainsong
2000, Vintage Books
in English - 1st Vintage Contemporaries ed.
Cover of: Plainsong
Plainsong
2000, QPD
in English
Cover of: Plainsong
Plainsong
1999, Alfred A. Knopf
in English - 1st ed.
Cover of: Plainsong
Plainsong
1999, Alfred A. Knopf, Distributed by Random House
in English - 1st ed.

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Library of Congress
PS3558.A716 P58 2001eb

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Electronic resource

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Open Library
OL24247132M
Internet Archive
plainsong0000haru
ISBN 13
9780375726934
OCLC/WorldCat
233703432
OverDrive
631343F9-54F2-4E6C-96B2-0978CB0899F6

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