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Plainsong / Kent Haruf.
Series: Plainsong. 1 Publication details: London : Picador, 2013.Description: 287 pages ; 20 cmISBN:- 9781447240440 (paperback)
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| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Vol info | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Fiction | HAR | Plainsong Bk.1 | Available | 065278 |
Total reserves: 0
Originally published: New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999; London: Picador, 2000.
In Holt, Colorado, Tom Guthrie is struggling to bring up his two young sons alone. In the same town, school girl Victoria Roubideaux finds herself pregnant and homeless. Whilst Tom's sons find their way forward without their mother, quiet and gentle Harold and Raymond McPheron agree to take Victoria in, unaware that their lives are about to change forever. A novel of haunting beauty, Plainsong explores the grace and hope of every human life and mankind's infinity capacity for love.
