Plainsong

By Kent Haruf

Categories: Literature & Fiction

Plainsong is a 1999 novel by Kent Haruf, set in the fictional town of Holt on the eastern plains of Colorado. It was a finalist for the National Book Award, and its story continues in Eventide. Tom Guthrie, a high school teacher whose wife has withdrawn from the family, raises his two young sons alone. Victoria Roubideaux, a pregnant teenager thrown out by her mother, is taken in by the McPheron brothers, two elderly bachelor cattle farmers. Their quiet lives slowly come together.

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