Plainsong

by Kent Haruf

In alternating points of view, Haruf chronicles several lives in a small town in Colorado. The plot involves Tom Guthrie, whose wife leaves him with their two little boys; a young pregnant girl who is thrown out of her house by her mother; the elderly McPheron brothers who take her in; and Maggie Jones, Tom's kindhearted colleague.

Editions of Plainsong

ISBN 9781568958392	Binding/Format Hardcover	Publisher Wheeler Pub Inc	Date 2000	Price $9.99	Used - Good
ISBN 9788408034452	Binding/Format Paperback	Publisher Planeta Pub Corp	Date 1999	Price $41.37	Good
ISBN 9781568951478	Binding/Format Paperback	Publisher Gale / Cengage Learning	Date 2001	Price $8.91	Used - Good
ISBN 9780375705854	Binding/Format Paperback	Publisher Vintage Books	Date 2000	Price $1.00	Good
ISBN 9780788737657	Binding/Format Audio Cassette	Publisher Recorded Books	Date 1999	Price $2.19	Acceptable
ISBN 9780375406188	Binding/Format Hardcover	Publisher Alfred a Knopf Inc	Date 1999	Price $1.00	Used, Very Good

Publisher Notes

From the unsettled lives of three people emerges a vision of life, and of the town and landscape that bind them together. Utterly true to the rhythms and patterns of life, "Plainsong" is a heartstrong story of family and romance, tribulation, and tenacity.

Media Reviews

"Though [Kent Haruf's] third novel, PLAINSONG, is relatively uneventful--a year in the lives of normal folk in the small prairie town of Holt, Colo.--his mesmerizing language draws the reader in, fascinating even with his depictions of the most mundane occurrences....Haruf's haunting, virtuosic writing...is both spare and descriptive, as painstaking in capturing vagueness as it is precise detailing the concrete."

First Line

Here was this man Tom Guthrie in Holt standing at the back window in the kitchen of his house smoking cigarettes and looking out over the back lot where the sun was just coming up.

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