Plainsong

Haruf, Kent

ISBN 10: 0375406182 / ISBN 13: 9780375406188

Published by Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1999

About this Item

Simply signed on the title page by Kent Haruf. ; 320 pages; Signed by Author.

Seller Inventory # 31940

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Plainsong
• Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, New York
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0375406182
• ISBN 13: 9780375406188
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: Tenth Printing.
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Modern Fiction

About this title

Synopsis

From the unsettled lives of a small-town teacher struggling to raise two boys alone in the face of their mother's retreat from life, a pregnant teenage girl with nowhere to go, and two elderly bachelor farmers emerges a new vision of life and family as their diverse destinies intertwine. 200,000 first printing.

About the Authors

Kent Haruf's The Tie That Binds received a Whiting Foundation Award and a special citation from the PEN/Hemingway Foundation. Also the author ofWhere You Once Belonged, he lives with his wife, Cathy, in Murphysboro, Illinois, and teaches at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale.

Kent Haruf teaches at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale.