About this Item
New York: Knopf, 1999. First edition. First printing. A fine copy in a fine jacket. A clean copy, with price ($24.00) intact on front flap. Comes with archival-quality jacket protector. This copy has been SIGNED by Haruf on the title page (as pictured). Purchased new and opened only for author to sign. You cannot find a better copy. A tight clean copy, appears unread, with publisher's postcard laid in. Seller Inventory # 3259
Bibliographic Details
Title: Plainsong (Signed First Edition)
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, New York
Publication Date: 1999
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
Signed: Signed by Author(s)
Edition: 1st 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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