Plainsong (Vintage Contemporaries) (edit title)

Shelfari edited the description of Plainsong (Vintage Contemporaries) Friday, July 31 2009.

• "Ambitious, but never seeming so, Kent Haruf reveals a whole community as he interweaves the stories of a pregnant high school girl, a lonely teacher, a pair of boys abandoned by their mother, and a couple of crusty bachelor farmers. From simple elements, Haruf achieves a novel of wisdom and grace--a narrative that builds in strength and feeling until, as in a choral chant, the voices in the book surround, transport, and lift the reader off the ground." -FROM THE CITATION FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD

Shelfari edited the contributors of Plainsong (Vintage Contemporaries) Tuesday, July 21 2009.

• reordered the contributors.
• 1 : Kent Haruf:

Shelfari edited the contributors of Plainsong (Vintage Contemporaries) Thursday, July 16 2009.

• Added a contributor: Kent Haruf: (Primary Author)

Shelfari edited the first sentence of Plainsong (Vintage Contemporaries) Thursday, July 16 2009.

• Here was this man Tom Guthrie in Holt standing at the back window in the kitchen of his house smoking cigarettes and looking out over the back lot where the sun was just coming up.