''Beautifully crafted, alive and quietly magnificent'' - Roddy Doyle ''So delicate and lovely that it has the power to exalt the reader'' - The New York Times Set in Kent Haruf''s fictional landscape of Holt County, Colorado, Plainsong is a story of simple lives told with extraordinary empathy. Tom Guthrie is struggling to bring up his two young sons alone and, in the same town, school girl Victoria Roubideaux is pregnant and homeless. Brothers Harold and Raymond McPheron - gentle, solitary, gruff and unpolished - agree to take Victoria in, unaware that their lives will change forever. A novel of haunting beauty from one of America''s greatest writers, Plainsong is an undeniable classic that explores the grace and hope of every human life and mankind''s infinite capacity for love. '' Plainsong is nothing short of a revelation'' - Richard Russo ''Fans of this book have been nothing less than devotional in their praise of Kent Haruf'' - The Times Literary Supplement

Autorentext
Kent Haruf is the author of six novels (and, with the photographer Peter Brown, West of Last Chance). His honours include a Whiting Foundation Writers' Award, the Mountains & Plains Booksellers Award, the Wallace Stegner Award, and a special citation from the PEN/Hemingway Foundation; he was also a finalist for the National Book Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and The New Yorker Book Award. Benediction was shortlisted for the Folio Prize. He died in November 2014, at the age of seventy-one.

Klappentext

Plainsong, set in Kent Haruf's fictional Holt County, Colorado, is an unforgettable modern classic, exploring the grace and hope of every human life, and our boundless capacity for love.

'So delicate and lovely that it has the power to exalt the reader' - The New York Times

Tom Guthrie is struggling to bring up his two young sons alone and, in the same town, school girl Victoria Roubideaux is pregnant and homeless.

Brothers Harold and Raymond McPheron - gentle, solitary, gruff and unpolished - agree to take Victoria in, unaware that their lives will change forever.

**'Beautifully crafted, alive and quietly magnificent' - Roddy Doyle, Booker Prize-winning author of Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha

Part of the Picador Collection, a series showcasing the best of modern** literature.

Zusammenfassung
Preceding the astonishing Eventide and Benediction, this is Kent Haruf's first novel set in the imaginary landscape of Holt, Colorado.