9781447289517 Plainsong 32.2000 NZD InStock /shop/books /shop/books/fiction/contemporary /shop/books/fiction Set in Kent Haruf's fictional landscape of Holt County, Colorado, Plainsong is a story of simple lives told with extraordinary empathy.Ī 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. 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.Ī 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. 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. Set in Kent Haruf's fictional landscape of Holt County, Colorado, Plainsong is a story of simple lives told with extraordinary empathy. 87 editions A heartstrong story of family and romance, tribula Want to Read Rate it: Book 2 Eventide by Kent Haruf 4. Haruf set all of his books in the fictional small town of Holt, Colo., integrating his bare-bones descriptions of the high plains so strikingly and crucially into his plots that setting is.Tom Guthrie is struggling to bring up his two. Somebody or something besides an old red cow to care about and worry over. And you old solitary bastards need somebody too. With an introduction by Peter Carey, author of True History of the Kelly Gang.

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