Plainsong (Signed First Edition)

Kent Haruf

ISBN 10: 0375406182 / ISBN 13: 9780375406188

Published by Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1999

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
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0375406182
• ISBN 13: 9780375406188
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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.