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Plainsong
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- Book Synopsis
- Plainsong, set in Kent Haruf's fictional Holt County, Colorado, is an unforgettable modern classic, exploring the grace and hope of every human life, and our boundless capacity for love. 'So delicate and lovely that it has the power to exalt the reader' - The New York Times 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. Brothers Harold and Raymond McPheron - gentle, solitary, gruff and unpolished - agree to take Victoria in, unaware that their lives will change forever. 'Beautifully crafted, alive and quietly magnificent' - Roddy Doyle, Booker Prize-winning author of Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha Part of the Picador Collection, a series showcasing the best of modern literature.
- About The Author
- Kent Haruf is the author of six novels (and, with the photographer Peter Brown, West of Last Chance). His honours include a Whiting Foundation Writers' Award, the Mountains & Plains Booksellers Award, the Wallace Stegner Award, and a special citation from the PEN/Hemingway Foundation; he was also a finalist for the National Book Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and The New Yorker Book Award. Benediction was shortlisted for the Folio Prize. He died in November 2014, at the age of seventy-one.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781035038978
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Picador, (05 September 2024)
- Number of Pages
- 320
- Weight
- 216 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 199 x 131 x 20 mm
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