Plainsong

Kent Haruf

eBook - 2001

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • This poignant novel weaves together the lives of a high school teacher, a pregnant teenage girl, and two elderly bachelor brothers, capturing the essence of human resilience and community across four generations."Resonant and meaningful . . . . A song of praise in honor of the lives it chronicles [and] a story about people's ability to adapt and redeem themselves." —The Washington Post Book World"So foursquare, so delicate and lovely . . . it has the power to exalt the reader." —The New York Times Book ReviewIn the small town of Holt, Colorado, a high school teacher is confronted with raising his two boys alone after their mother retreats first to the bedr...oom, then altogether. A teenage girl—her father long since disappeared, her mother unwilling to have her in the house—is pregnant, alone herself, with nowhere to go. And out in... more