Plainsong
With an introduction by Peter Carey
(Sprache: Englisch)
Preceding Eventide and Benediction, this is Kent Haruf's first novel set in the imaginary landscape of Holt, Colorado.
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Preceding Eventide and Benediction, this is Kent Haruf's first novel set in the imaginary landscape of Holt, Colorado.
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I suppose it is crazy. I don't know. I don't even care. But that girl needs somebody . . . And you old solitary bastards need somebody too. Somebody or something besides an old red cow to care about and worry over.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. Whilst Tom's boys find their way forward without their mother, brothers Harold and Raymond McPheron - gentle, solitary, gruff and unpolished - agree to take Victoria in, unaware that their lives will change for ever.
A novel of haunting beauty from one of America's greatest writers of our time, Plainsong explores the grace and hope of every human life and mankind's infinity capacity for love.
'Beautifully crafted, alive and quietly magnificent. I read it in one mesmerising sitting. I had no choice; it would not let me go' Roddy Doyle
'So delicate and lovely that it has the power to exalt the reader' New York Times
Autoren-Porträt von Kent Haruf
Kent Haruf's honours include a Whiting Foundation Award and a special citation from the PEN/Hemingway Foundation. Plainsong won the Mountains & Plains Booksellers Award and was a finalist for the National Book Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and the New Yorker Book Award. Haruf's 2013 novel, Benediction, was shortlisted for the Folio prize. He died in 2014 at the age of seventy-one.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Kent Haruf
- Altersempfehlung: Ab 18 Jahre
- 2015, 320 Seiten, Maße: 13 x 19,8 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Picador
- ISBN-10: 144728951X
- ISBN-13: 9781447289517
- Erscheinungsdatum: 24.09.2015
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
Kent Haruf's prose murmurs a haunting melody through the intertwined lives of a Colorado community. It is a simple tale of life, death, love and hatred The Times
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