Plainsong, Kent Haruf
Plainsong, Kent Haruf
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Plainsong

Author: Kent Haruf

Narrator: Tom Stechschulte

Unabridged: 9 hr 3 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 01/13/2012


Synopsis

National Book Award Finalist

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.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Will on December 04, 2024

Kent Haruf - 1943 - 2014 - image from the New York Times - photo credit - Michael Lionstar 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 Maggie’s old father is off his rocker and this makes for a dangerous household f......more

Goodreads review by Candi on March 22, 2016

A beautifully written novel set in the rural town of Holt, Colorado, Plainsong is a book I will not soon forget. The prose is modest yet so elegant in its simplicity. Nothing is overdone and yet what happens to the characters in this book is far from uneventful. A pair of young brothers that have to......more

Goodreads review by Jaline on February 02, 2019

Welcome to the small town of Holt, Colorado and its surround countryside. I am not sure how it happened that I read this trilogy completely backwards, but now that I have read the last one (the first one last as any good backwards reader will tell you), I can now see where the feuds started, where t......more

Goodreads review by Karen on February 29, 2020

Simply, a beautiful book! Holt, Colorado in the 1980’s Great characters, many with personal problems to work through. Tom Guthrie..a schoolteacher with two young boys to bring up who has a wife incapacitated by depression. Victoria...a 17 yr old schoolgirl who gets kicked out of her home by her mother......more