Plains Song: For Female Voices - Softcover

Morris, Wright

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0803282672 ISBN 13: 9780803282674

Publisher: Bison Books, 2000

Synopsis

Wright Morris (1910-1998) wrote thirty-three books, including The Home Place, also available in a Bison Books edition, and Field of Vision, which won the National Book Award. Charles Baxter is a professor of English at the University of Michigan and the author of numerous works, including The Feast of Love.

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Review:

"Nowhere in [Morris's] fiction does emotion emerge from detail so beautifully as in this precise and vivid book. . . . The triumph of the book, in terms of craft, is that we experience the sense of the slow passage of time so necessary to such a story. . . . The heart of the book is its tactful rendering of the emotional history of several women. . . . Precise, satisfying, and complete."--New York Times Book Review--New York Times Book Review

"This is a beautiful, subtle novel that accomplishes the rare effect of presenting history from the inside out. . . . As the title suggests, this is a melody without accompaniment, music of the simplest and most beautiful kind. Perhaps it is because Morris sketches his characters so sparingly that they seem so indelible. They are such a real presence that it's hard to think they haven't actually lived."--Christian Science Monitor--Christian Science Monitor

"Wright Morris knows the embattled regions within his people as well as the harshly beautiful landscapes that surround them."--New Republic--New Republic

About this edition

• Publisher: Bison Books
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0803282672
• ISBN 13: 9780803282674
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 229