Plainsong
11 April 2013Imprint: Picador
Synopsis
Set in Kent Haruf's fictional landscape of Holt County, Colorado, Plainsong is a story of simple lives told with extraordinary empathy. Tom Guthrie is struggling to bring up his two young sons alone. In the same town, school girl Victoria Roubideaux finds herself pregnant and homeless. Whilst Tom’s sons find their way forward without their mother, quiet and gentle Harold...
Details
11 April 2013304 pages
9781447240440Imprint: Picador
Reviews
Perfectly formed, beautifully executed.Mariella Frostrup
Beautifully crafted, alive and quietly magnificent. I read it in one mesmerising sitting. I had no choice; it wouldn't let me go.Roddy Doyle
Plainsong is nothing short of a revelation. I don't expect to read a better novel this year. Or next, for that matter.Richard Russo
So delicate and lovely that it has the power to exalt the reader.New York Times
