Plainsong

Plainsong is a classic novel set in Holt County, Colorado, exploring the grace and hope of human life and love. Tom Guthrie struggles to raise his sons alone, while Victoria Roubideaux is pregnant and homeless. Brothers Harold and Raymond McPheron take her in, unaware of the changes that will come. The novel is hauntingly beautiful and essential reading from the Picador Collection.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 304 pages
Publication date: 05 September 2024
Publisher: Pan Macmillan

Plainsong , set in Kent Haruf's fictional Holt County, Colorado, is a timeless classic that delves into the grace and hope of every human life and our boundless capacity for love. The New York Times praised it as "so delicate and lovely that it has the power to exalt the reader." Tom Guthrie, a single father, struggles to raise his two young sons alone, while schoolgirl 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 be forever changed. Plainsong is a hauntingly beautiful novel from one of America's greatest writers, and it is an essential read from the Picador Collection, a curated list of era-defining modern classics. Roddy Doyle, the bestselling author of The Commitments, described it as "beautifully crafted, alive, and quietly magnificent."

Weight: 212g
Dimension: 198 x 128 x 14 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781035038978