Kent Haruf

Plainsong

With an introduction by Peter Carey

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Produktbeschreibung

Set in Kent Haruf's fictional landscape of Holt County, Colorado, Plainsong is a story of simple lives told with extraordinary empathy.

With an introduction by Peter Carey, author of True History of the Kelly Gang.

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.

Brothers Harold and Raymond McPheron - gentle, solitary, gruff and unpolished - agree to take Victoria in, unaware that their lives will change forever.

A novel of haunting beauty from one of America's greatest writers, Plainsong is an undeniable classic that explores the grace and hope of every human life and mankind's infinite capacity for love.

Produktdetails

• Picador Classic 36
• Verlag: Macmillan Publishers International / Picador
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 68029
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Altersempfehlung: ab 18 Jahren
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Oktober 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 130mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 269g
• ISBN-13: 9781447289517
• ISBN-10: 144728951X
• Artikelnr.: 42186989

Autorenporträt

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.

Rezensionen

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