Plainsong

Haruf, Kent

ISBN 10: 0375406182 / ISBN 13: 9780375406188

Published by Alfred A. Knopf, 1999

About this Item

Tenth Printing. Signed by author on title page--no inscription, just signature.

Seller Inventory # ABE-1695441208878

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Plainsong
• Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0375406182
• ISBN 13: 9780375406188
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Signed: Signed by Author
• Seller catalogs:
  • Signed
  • Contemporary Fiction
  • Made into a Movie or TV Show

About this title

Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Kent Haruf's The Tie That Binds received a Whiting Foundation Award and a special citation from the PEN/Hemingway Foundation. Also the author of Where You Once Belonged, he lives with his wife, Cathy, in Murphysboro, Illinois, and teaches at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale.