Plainsong
By: by Kent Haruf.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf; Distributed by Random House
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 301
Subjects: City and town life -- Fiction.; Colorado -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "In the small town of Holt, Colorado, a high school teacher is confronted with raising his two boys alone after their mother retreats first to the bedroom, then altogether. A teenage girl - her father long since disappeared, her mother unwilling to have her in the house - is pregnant, alone herself, with nowhere to go. And out in the country, two brothers, elderly bachelors, work the family homestead, the only world they've ever known."--BOOK JACKET.

"From these unsettled lives emerges a vision of life, and of the town and landscape that bind them together - their fates somehow overcoming the powerful circumstances of place and station, their confusion, curiosity, dignity and humor intact and resonant."--BOOK JACKET.