Plains Song, for Female Voices
by Wright Morris
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The Atkins family, of the Nebraska plains, is a family of women headed by Cora, who has learned to submit to the rhythms of nature and maintains a moral innocence. Her sister-in-law, Belle, dies in childbirth. Sharon Rose, Belle's daughter, is raised by Cora and eventually leaves Nebraska for the sophistication of the East Coast. Years later she returns to the plains and comes face-to-face with Cora's dignity, resourcefulness, and resolute character.
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9780060130473,
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Harpercollins,
1980
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9780140057782,
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Penguin Books,
1981
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Publisher Notes
Cora, a resolute Midwesterner, stands at the heart of this saga of three generations of the Atkins family and, more particularly, of its women, from the early years of the twentieth century to the 1970s.
Media Reviews
"A writer of truly astonishing beauty and power...[his] portraits of women are brilliantly accurate, memorable, moving, and true."
First Line
It is a curse in this family that the women bear only daughters, if anything at all.
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