Book cover for Plainsong

Plainsong

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08 October 2015
304 pages
9781447289524
Imprint: Picador

Reviews

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 hatredThe Times
Like all the best novels, Plainsong takes you into a world that is at once real and vividly imagined. Here is a poetry of landscape, a tender and passionate evocation of ordinary people in majestic countryNiall Williams
The hundreds of thousands of fans of this book have been nothing less than devotional in their praise of Kent HarufTimes Literary Supplement
Plainsong is nothing short of a revelationRichard Russo