About this Item
First Printing. Boards show some wear on bottom edge. Jacket is price clipped with small scratch below author's name. Runner up for the National Book Award. Signed by Haruf on the title page. Seller Inventory # 000193
Bibliographic Details
Title: Plainsong
Publisher: Knopf, New York
Publication Date: 1999
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Near Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good +
Signed: Signed by Author(s)
Edition: First Edition
About this title
Holt, Colorado, is the kind of small town where everyone knows everyone's business before that business even happens. In a way, that's true of the book, too. There's not a lot of suspense here, plotwise; you can see each narrative twist and turn coming several miles down the pike. What Plainsong has instead is note-perfect dialogue, surrounded by prose that's straightforward yet rich in particulars: "a woman walking a white lapdog on a piece of ribbon," glimpsed from a car window; the boys' mother, her face "as pale as schoolhouse chalk"; the smells of hay and manure, the variations of prairie light. Even the novel's larger questions are sized to a domestic scale. Will Guthrie find love? Will Victoria run away with the father of her baby? Will the McPherons learn to hold a conversation? But in this case, the whole is greater than the sum of its parts, and Plainsong manages to capture nothing less than an entire world--fencing pliers, calf-pullers, and all. Kent Haruf has a gorgeous ear, and a knack for rendering the simple complex. --Mary Park
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