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
Details
08 October 2015
304 pages
9781447289524
Imprint: Picador
Reviews
“Like all the best novels, Plainsong takes you into a world that is at once real and vividly imagined. Here is a poetry of landscape, a tender and passionate evocation of ordinary people in majestic country”Niall Williams
“Plainsong is nothing short of a revelation”Richard Russo
“Plainsong is a beauty, as spare and heartbreaking as an abandoned homestead cabin, always tough but humane, never sentimental...It's a story that draws the reader like a heat mirage”James Crumley
“Kent Haruf's prose murmurs a haunting melody through the intertwined lives of a Colorado community. It is a simple tale of life, death, love and hatred”The Times, The Times
