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Plainsong (Wheeler Large Print Book Series)
Plainsong - Wheeler Large Print Book Series Author:Kent Haruf "With Plainsong, [Kent Haruf] has conjured up an entire community, and ineluctably immersed the reader in its dramas.� He has written a compelling and compassionate novel." - Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times"Haruf's unforgettable tale is both emotionally complex and elemental, following, as it so gracefully does, the cycle ... more »of life, death, and rebirth." -BooklistNominated for the National Book Award, Kent Haruf's Plainsong, Unabridged on audioA heartstrong story of family and romance, tribulation and tenacity, set on the High Plains east of Denver.� In 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 bedroom, then altogether.� A teenage girl - her father long since disappeared, her mother unwilling to have her in the house - is pregnant with nowhere to go.� And out in the country, two brothers, elderly bachelors, work the family homestead, the only world they've ever known.From these unsettled lives emerges a vision of life, and of the town and landscape that bind them together - their fates somehow overcoming the powerful circumstances of place and station, their confusion, curiosity, dignity and humor intact and resonant.Utterly true to the rhythms and patterns of life, Plainsong is a story to care about, believe in and learn from."Plainsong is nothing short of a revelation." - Richard Russo« less