Plainsong
Haruf, Kent
From Watermark West Rare Books, Wichita, KS, U.S.A.
AbeBooks Seller Since 15 November 1999
Quantity: 1From Watermark West Rare Books, Wichita, KS, U.S.A.
AbeBooks Seller Since 15 November 1999
Quantity: 1About this Item
; 299 pp.; Wraps; F-; Advance reading copy, signed by the author on the title page. With a portfolio of publicity material from the publisher Various 8 1/2 x11 sheets, reproducing reviews etc. Including on two sheets "A Conversation With / Kent Haruf". . . [kwA_ 1st Ed. ]. Seller Inventory # 25071
Bibliographic Details
Title: Plainsong
Publisher: Alfred Knopf; NY; 1999/1999/FE
Publication Date: 1999
Binding: Soft cover
Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
Signed: Signed by Author(s)
Edition: 1st Edition
About this title
Holt, Colorado, is the kind of small town where everyone knows everyone's business before that business even happens. In a way, that's true of the book, too. There's not a lot of suspense here, plot wise; you can see each narrative twist and turn coming several miles down the pike. What Plainsong has instead is note-perfect dialogue, surrounded by prose that's straightforward yet rich in particulars: "a woman walking a white lapdog on a piece of ribbon" glimpsed from a car window; the boys' mother, her face "as pale as schoolhouse chalk"; the smells of hay and manure, the variations of prairie light. Even the novel's larger questions are sized to a domestic scale. Will Guthrie find love? Will Victoria run away with the father of her baby? Will the McPherons learn to hold a conversation? But in this case, the whole is greater than the sum of its parts, and Plainsong manages to capture nothing less than an entire world--fencing pliers, calf-pullers, and all. Kent Haruf has a gorgeous ear, and a knack for rendering the simple complex. --Mary Park
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