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Beschreibung

Plainsong, set in Kent Haruf's fictional Holt County, Colorado, is an unforgettable modern classic, exploring the grace and hope of every human life, and our boundless capacity for love.

'So delicate and lovely that it has the power to exalt the reader' - The New York Times

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.

'Beautifully crafted, alive and quietly magnificent' - Roddy Doyle, Booker Prize-winning author of Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha

Part of the Picador Collection, a series showcasing the best of modern
literature.

Plainsong, set in Kent Haruf's fictional Holt County, Colorado, is an unforgettable modern classic, exploring the grace and hope of every human life, and our boundless capacity for love.

'So delicate and lovely that it has the power to exalt the reader' - The New York Times

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.

'Beautifully crafted, alive and quietly magnificent' - Roddy Doyle, Booker Prize-winning author of Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha

Part of the Picador Collection, a series showcasing the best of modern
literature.

Über den Autor
Kent Haruf's honours included a Whiting Foundation Award and a special citation from the PEN/Hemingway Foundation. His novel 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. Benediction was shortlisted for the Folio Prize. He died in November 2014, at the age of seventy-one.
Details
Empfohlen (von): 18
Erscheinungsjahr: 2024
Genre: Importe, Romane & Erzählungen
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: 304 S.
ISBN-13: 9781035038978
ISBN-10: 1035038978
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Haruf, Kent
Hersteller: Pan Macmillan
Picador
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Petersen Buchimport GmbH, Vertrieb, Weidestr. 122a, D-22083 Hamburg, gpsr@petersen-buchimport.com
Maße: 195 x 127 x 19 mm
Von/Mit: Kent Haruf
Erscheinungsdatum: 05.09.2024
Gewicht: 0,22 kg
Artikel-ID: 127787559

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