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Title	:	Plainsong (Plainsong #1)
Author	:	Kent Haruf
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 301 pages
Published	:	August 22nd 2000 by Vintage (first published October 4th 1999)
Categories	:	Fiction. Literary Fiction. Contemporary

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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.

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Original Title:	Plainsong
ISBN:	0375705856 (ISBN13: 9780375705854)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Plainsong #1
Setting:	Denver, Colorado(United States) Holt, Colorado(United States)
Literary Awards:	Book Sense Book of the Year Award Nominee for Adult (2000), ALA Alex Award (2000), National Book Award Finalist for Fiction (1999), Society of Midland Authors Award for Adult Fiction (2000), International Dublin Literary Award Nominee (2001)

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Great story!!! Great characters!!! Great writing!!!!

One of my all time favorite books...beautifully written and spare...my favorite kind of novel. It rang so true to my Eastern Colorado roots. I felt that I personally recognized some of the characters in the story.

I'm a private, introverted person. I don't enjoy debates or big flare-up arguments, with loud splotches of emotion. Whack! There's some emphatic feeling right there, all messy on the floor. Maybe it's my Canadian-ness, or a result of my upbringing in a house where my parents always kept their troubles quietly to themselves. As a result of this personality trait, it follows that I don't like BIG CAPITAL LETTERS, loads!!!!!!!! of exclamation marks, or all kinds of emphasis, bejewelling and

This is the book that sneaks up on you...I didn't realize how invested I was in the characters and their stories, until the author dangles their safety and lives in front of me and I find myself reading in a frenzy to ensure that everything is ok. Sneaky, sneaky.Holt, Colorado is a small town; seemingly everybody knows everybody and everybody's business. Couple of mundane, typical stories slowly thread themselves into your heart and realize that you've come to love each and every one of them in

To think that I almost brought this book back to the library, unread because it was due back! That would have been a colossal mistake on my part for I would have missed out on a delightful book!Kent Haruf writing style leaves a lot to be desired. It drives me crazy when authors don't use quotation marks when characters are talking but Kent Haruf story drew me in immediately, even without the quotation marks! His storytelling is reminiscent of Willa Cather, whom I adore!Great story and lovable

Victoria Robideaux is 17 and pregnant. Her mother throws her out and she is taken in, for a time, by the kindly Maggie Jones. But Maggies old father is off his rocker and this makes for a dangerous household for Vicky. She winds up with two brothers, Raymond and Harold McPheron, sheltered gentlemen who have spent their entire lives working the same ranch in the home in which they grew up. The love that springs up in this makeshift family is a glory to behold. Dark forces abide in the town as

Oh, what a beautiful book. Haruf's language is so deceptively simple--there's probably not a word in the book beyond sixth grade reading level. But with this simple language, he creates such beautiful, sad, lonely, human people. I'm particularly in love with the McPheron brothers, two elderly bachelor farmer brothers (and they're the single largest reason I think Nance needs to read this book).Something else about the simplicity of the language--I can't recall a single time that Haruf directly